Gas-sensitive-gas-chromatographic electronic nose instrument and online analysis method of multiple state parameters of fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes

ABSTRACT

Provided is an electronic nose instrument based on gas sensitivity and gas chromatography and an online analysis method of multiple state parameters of fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes. The main constituent units of the instrument include a gas sensor array module, a capillary gas chromatographic column module, an automatic gas sampling module, and a computer control and analysis module. A single gas sampling period is T 0 =300-600s. Not only are two flow rates and two accumulative volumes of gas sampling unequal to each other, but also two starting time points are not synchronized to each other, between the gas sensor array module and the gas chromatography module. 3 pieces of sensitive information, i.e., a steady-state peak value, a corresponding peak time value and an area under a whole curve, are selected from a response curve of a single gas sensor with a 60s duration by the computer control and analysis module, or 48 pieces of gas sensitive information in total, and 21 pieces of sensitive information, i.e., 10 maximum peak values, 10 corresponding retention time values, and 1 area under the whole chromatographic curve, are selected from a semi-separation chromatogram with a duration T 0 −10 s. Furthermore, the cyclical online identification and intensity and quantitative estimation of multiple indices of odors for five fermentation or malodorous pollution processes with a maximum cyclical gas sampling period T=5T 0  are realized by a modular deep convolutional neural network model according to a 69-dimensional normalized fused real-time sensitive pattern and an existing big odor data.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This is a U.S. national stage application filed under 37 U.S.C. 371based on International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2020/102885, filedon Jul. 18, 2020, which claims priority to Chinese Patent ApplicationNo. 200010077146.1, filed with the China National Intellectual PropertyAdministration (CNIPA) on Jan. 23, 2020 and Chinese Patent ApplicationNo. 202010077147.6, filed with the China National Intellectual PropertyAdministration (CNIPA) on Jan. 23, 2020, the disclosures of which areincorporated herein by reference in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure provides a method for online detecting andanalyzing multiple state parameters of fermentation and malodorouspollutant processes by using an electronic nose instrument of gassensitivity and gas chromatography, used for the requirements ofmulti-source online detection and multi-parameter analysis in a processrepresented by bio-fermentation and malodorous pollution, involving thetechnical fields of artificial intelligence, computer, bioengineering,environmental protection, analytical chemistry and others, and it mainlysolves a series of problems of poor sensitivity of a gas sensor, poorselectivity of a gas sensor array caused by a single perceptioninformation selection method, poor linearity of a chromatography causedby a peak-to-peak complete separation method, optimized combination ofthe gas sensor array and a gas chromatographic column structure,multi-source perception information selection and fusion and the like,so as to achieve the aims of long-term circulation, multi-source onlinedetection and multi-parameter online analysis of the bio-fermentationand malodorous pollution processes by the electronic nose instrument.

BACKGROUND

Olfaction simulation—Electronic nose method uses a number of overlappinggas sensor arrays to achieve rapid odor detection, and uses machinelearning method to perform qualitative and quantitative odor analysis.Online odor detection and analysis has become a key applicationtechnique in the industrial fields of bioengineering, environmentalprotection, food and others. Special attention has been paid to anelectronic nose instrument due to its good characteristics of highperception speed, non-contact detection, simple and convenientoperation, etc. The present research situation on electronic nose theoryand technique is that the sensitivity of a single gas sensor has alreadyreached up to 10⁻⁷ (V/V) or 0.1 ppm order of magnitude, but itsselectivity is relatively poor, and therefore the stability, linearityand qualitative and quantitative capabilities of the electronic noseinstrument are not ideal. What is more serious is that an onlineelectronic nose instrument of fermentation is still blank in the world.Under the background of great demand, the electronic nose technology isrepeatedly listed in the national high technology R&D program of China(863), the national science and technology support program of China, andthe national key R&D program of China.

On-line detection of multiple process parameters is the prerequisite forreal-time estimation, prediction and control of bio-fermentation andmalodorous pollution processes. The environmental malodorous pollutiontime span can be months or years; the bio-fermentation process can be asshort as 1-2 days, or as long as days (such as, beer fermentation),months, or even years. The change of the state of the bio-fermentationand malodorous pollution processes is slightly exaggerated by using“instantaneous change”, but the detection and analysis period in theunit of “hour” is definitely too long. The measured object does notchange greatly in the state of 1 min, namely a detection period is notnecessary to be less than 1 min; in turn, the bio-fermentation ormalodorous pollution state may change greatly within 1 hour, and it isnot suitable to consider the “online” detection as the “intermittent”detection of the regular manual sampling for 1 hour or more in theperiod. Accordingly, the online detection and analysis period of theelectronic nose instrument for a single bio-fermentation process(fermentation tank) or a single malodorous pollution monitoring pointshould not be over T₀=10 min, and the circulation online detection andanalysis period T=n*T₀ for multiple fermentation tanks or multiplemalodorous monitoring points should be within 1 hour, therefore, judgewhether a detection and analysis method is on line in this way is muchmore reasonable.

It is unrealistic and inconceivable to analyze fermentation process byartificial smelling of tail gas. Moreover, quantitative determination ofodor concentration, food and flavor odor intensity by smell iscriticized for its cumbersome process, high cost, low efficiency, poorobjectivity and operability. The long-term artificial smelling of themalodorous odors can cause serious harm to the human body, and isincompatible with the desire of people to pursue a beautiful life in theage of artificial intelligence. Online multi-source detection,identification and simultaneous quantitative prediction of multiplecomponents of complex odors are not only a complex theoretical problem,but also technical and application problems which need to be solvedurgently.

One of the main development trends of the electronic nose technology isthat by using multiple sensitive elements with necessary sensitivity toform an array, big data and artificial intelligence technology areemphatically utilized to improve the qualitative and quantitativecapabilities, including type identification, intensity and quantitativeestimation of main components of many complex odors. “Long-termcontinuous online detection and analysis” is a main working mode of anelectronic nose instrument, and is mainly used for online qualitativeanalysis and prediction of concentrations of multiple main components inthe process of objects such as the bio-fermentation and malodorouspollutants, and is characterized with abundant gas volume, fixedsampling period (such as, 5 min), flow rate and duration interval andrepeated, and an electronic nose instrument performs qualitative andquantitative analysis by perceiving the fermentation tail gases andmalodorous gases again and again.

The basic premise of the “continuous online” detection and analysis ofthe electronic nose instrument is that the core, namely the gas sensorarray, has a remarkable perception capability on a tested object. Fromthe perspective of application, the performance indices of the gassensor to be achieved include: high sensitivity (ppm level or even ppblevel), fast response speed (within 1 min), stable working state, highcommercialization level, long service life (3-5 years), small size, andgood selectivity.

According to the difference of sensitive materials and workingprinciples, Reference [1] has listed the sensitive properties of 6 typesof common-used gas elements, i.e., metal oxide semi-conductor (MOS),electrochemical (EC), conducting polymer (CP), quartz microbalance(QMB), surface acoustic wave (SAW), and photo ionization detector (PID).Compared with the MOS-type, the EC gas sensor has a better selectivity,but has a larger size, a shorter service life with at least 1 year, anda lower sensitivity with one order of magnitude or more. Compared withthe MOS-type, the PID gas sensor has a large size, a narrow sensitiverange, a higher price and a shorter service life with about half a year.Moreover, the EC and the PID gas sensors are only suitable for detectingthe malodorous pollutants. The sensitivity of the QMB and SAW gas sensorelements is lower than that of the MOS type by 1 order of magnitude ormore. Therefore, more sensitive film materials need to be developed, andthe size of gas sensors needs to be further reduced. By taking variousfactors into consideration, the MOS gas sensors represented by SnO₂ aremost suitable for being used as the sensitive elements of the electronicnose instrument.

It must be noted that the single-type gas sensor as well as their arraymade of the above 6 sensitive materials thereof have a very limitedperception capability and do not meet the requirements of onlineprocessing detection for bio-fermentation, malodorous pollution and thelike. Extensive experiments have indicated the following facts: (i) eventhe MOS element with the highest sensitivity is not sensitive enough tothe precursor—phenylacetic acid during the penicillin fermentation; (ii)anyone existing electronic nose is not sensitive enough to themalodorous gas in a specified pig farm. It has been mentioned earlierthat the sensitivity of current gas sensors has reached the highestorder of magnitude of 10⁻⁷ (V/V), but that is only the case of a certainMOS sensor for a certain odorous components, and is not a commonphenomenon. One of the most typical examples is the detection ofmalodorous pollutants and the prediction of the concentration indices oftheir main compounds by using the electronic nose instrument. Thespecified indices by the Chinese national standard GB14554 include 8concentration values of NH₃, H₂S, CS₂, C₃H₉N, CH₄S, C₂H₆S, C₂H₆S₂ andC₈H₈, and an overall odor concentration or called OU (odor unit) value,all of which are referred to as (8+1) concentration control index valuesof malodorous pollutants for short. At present, one gas sensor arraythat is not only simultaneously sensitive but also has good selectivityto such 6 malodorous organic compounds as CS₂, C₃H₉N, CH₄S, C₂H₆S,C₂H₆S₂ and C₈H₈ does not exist, and is difficult to be developed out ina short term. In other words, it is difficult to realize the onlinedetection and prediction of (8+1) malodorous pollutant index values byusing one gas sensor array only made of the mentioned-above 6 gassensitive materials.

It is impossible to use an array of redundant gas sensors to detectnumerous odors. On the one hand, the structure of the electronic noseinstrument will be quite complex, and on the other, the current gassensors are insufficient in sensitivity and limited in overlappingperception range [1]. Therefore, the gas chromatography method hasattracted a high degree of interest. The chromatographic electronic nosecommodities have emerged, such as a Heracles II gas chromatographyelectronic nose produced by the α-MOS Corporation Ltd, France. Inessence, the Heracles II electronic nose is used for one-time on-sitedetection and analysis of odor on the basis of completely separatedchromatographic peaks in a single gas sampling period of T₀=5-8 min atany time, and is not suitable for the long-term continuous onlinedetections.

In terms of selectivity, the gas chromatography method is good, but theMOS gas sensor method is poor. However, this difference is onlyrelative, and the “qualitative ability” of the gas chromatography tounknown samples is still “weak”. That is, in the absence of spectrumsfor either internal or external standard samples, the constituent andcomponents of the unknown samples cannot be determined at all by asingle measured spectrum. The second defect of the gas chromatography isthat the “selectivity” of the chromatographic column is not universal. Aparticular chromatographic column is sensitive to a particular sampleonly under certain conditions, i.e. the particular chromatographiccolumn may only detect a particular sample in a particular range. Thechromatographic perception parameters of the particular sample willchange while either sampling conditions or test conditions orchromatographic column parameters change.

It should be noted that the core of gas chromatography is separation butnot detection. The effective method to improve the chromatographicseparation include: (1) the column length is properly increased; (2) thesampling volume and the sampling time are properly reduced; (3) the flowrate of carrier gas is properly reduced; (4) the temperature of thechromatographic column is properly reduced; (5) the temperature of thevaporization chamber is properly increased. It should be made clear thatthe proper increase of either the temperature of the chromatographiccolumn or the flow rate of carrier gas will be beneficial to shorten theretention time, and that the separation of chromatographic peaks and thereduction of the retention time are sometimes contradictory.

An odor is a mixture of tens, hundreds or even thousands of compounds,and all of which have a molecular weight of less than 300 Dalton.Retention time is an important qualitative analytical parameter for thegas chromatography, and the chromatographic retention time values of the8 malodorous compounds specified by GB 14554 are mostly less than 8 min.To increase the detection speed of the gas chromatography, a capillarycolumn with a larger inner diameter of ϕ0.53 mm and a column length of30 m may be selected and thus design and manufacture the GCconstant-temperature working chamber. H₂ is used as both carrier gas andfuel gas. The programmed temperature, the sampling of tested gases andthe pushing processes of carrier gas are precisely controlled. Thecapillary gas chromatography column as well as the whole chromatographycolumn module should be easily replaced and installed. In the period ofT₀≤10 min, the sampling flow rate of the tested gas may be between 1.0and 15 ml/min, and a sampling duration may be between 0.5 s and 1.5 s.At the moment, a semi-separation multi-peak chromatogram with limitedduration, say T₀≤10 min, may be obtained.

The phenomenon of semi-separation/incomplete separation of chromatogramis a result of the combined action of many factors, including theconstituent of the tested gas, the characteristics of thechromatographic column itself, the setting of working parameters of thechromatographic instrument, the performance of a detector, the length oftime recorded and others. Incomplete separation or semi-separation ofchromatographic peaks is a common phenomenon, and complete separation isonly an ideal or extreme case. The more components in a tested objectare, the more difficult the peak-to-peak complete separation is, andthus the cost is long detection time. In a period of progressivemarathon race, although the winner did not produce, the win-lose trendhas been scored, the winner is in “running in front of the team in therace”. In the second half of a progressive marathon race, although therankings have not been finally created, the trend of winning or losinghas been formed, and the winner and the runner-up are “running in thetop group of the competition team” This is a biological basis for thegas chromatography to perform an online detection and analysis by usingthe semi-separation chromatogram. The semi-separation chromatogram ispart of the full-separation chromatogram, which is equivalent to themarathon race “running in the top group of the competition team in themarathon race”. As long as the compositions of the tested samples andthe test condition of the chromatographic column remain unchanged, thesemi-separation chromatograms obtained by testing the same sample atdifferent times remain unchanged, and a positional relationship betweenthe semi-separation chromatogram and the full-separation chromatogram isalso unchanged. That is to say, some main characteristics of thefull-separation chromatogram may be speculated by using thesemi-separation chromatogram, for example, to speculate the presence andcontent of some components with long retention time that do not appearin the semi-separation chromatogram. For the bio-fermentation,malodorous pollution and other process analysis, it is enough to obtainthe information representing the main state parameters. Thesemi-separation chromatogram actually contains the main information ofthe full-separation chromatogram, and the key is how to obtain therequired information from the chromatogram and explain it.

Either single chromatographic column or a gas sensor array with a singletype of sensitive material is limited in terms of perception range. Itis difficult for a gas chromatography to analyze the inorganic and theeasily-decomposable high-boiling organic compounds, and also toqualitatively analyze the unknown compounds. It is not suitable for thegas chromatography to analyze some single compounds with strong polarityor complex compounds with quite different polarity, as well as somecarbon-free compounds. For example, the gas chromatography using ahydrogen flame ionization detector (FID) does not effectively detectinorganic compounds. This is the driver of the present disclosure todevelop a new online detection and analysis method of electronic noseinstrument fusing the gas sensor array and the capillary gaschromatographic column. Why should the two, the gas sensor array and thecapillary column, be fused? One of the reasons is that the present gassensors have not only poor selectivity but also low sensitivity to somecompounds. It is not possible, for instance, only for the existing gassensor arrays to realize online quantitative prediction of somenon-reduced or non-oxidized inorganic compounds, penicillin fermentationprecursor-phenylacetic acid, as well as 8+1 malodorous pollution indexesspecified by GB14554. The second reason is that the gas chromatographyhas poor online performance and a single chromatographic column is onlywith limited selectivity. For example, the gas chromatography is ableonly to detect the samples with good thermal stability. According toincomplete statistics, Agilent Technologies Co. Ltd. provides more thana thousand kind of ready-to-use chromatographic columns. The fact of“chromatographic column selection and replacement operation” itselfindicates that a single chromatographic column is limited in the aspectof detection range.

A typical example is that the Chinese national standard GB14554specifies that the concentrations of two malodorous pollutants, i.e.,NH₃ and CS₂, are detected by the spectrophotometry, and theconcentrations of six malodorous pollutants, i.e., H₂S, C₃H₉N, CH₄S,C₂H₆S, C₂H₆S₂ and C₈H₈, are detected by the gas chromatography. Itshould be noted that the three Chinese national standards of fromGB/T14676 to GB/T14678 specify the gas chromatographic detection methodsfor the last six malodorous pollutants, in which the detectors, thechromatographic columns and the working conditions are different fromeach other, to one's surprise; actually. It is found that these nationalstandards specify 6 malodorous compounds to be measured by using 2different sizes of packed columns. This means that a singlechromatographic column cannot simultaneously detect the 6 malodorouscompounds specified by GB14554. In a word, many factors need to beconsidered when selecting a suitable chromatographic column, includingits material, stationary phase, inner diameter, film thickness, length,as well as the test sample's polarity or non-polarity.

A single-type gas sensor array has poor selectivity, limited overlappingperception range and low sensitivity, and thus does not satisfy theonline detection requirement of bio-fermentation, malodorous pollutionand other objects. The chromatography has the advantages of highsensitivity and good selectivity, and has the defects of long separationtime or detection period, complex instrument structure and harsh workingcondition, which lead to the existing usages completely not suitable forthe online detection of odors. In the absence of spectrograms for eitherinternal or external standard samples, the constituent and components ofthe unknown samples cannot be determined at all by a single spectrogrammeasured once. The second defect of the gas chromatography is that the“selectivity” of the chromatographic column is not universal. A specificchromatographic column is sensitive to a specific sample only under acertain condition, i.e. the specific chromatographic column may onlydetect a specific sample in a specific range. When any one of thefollowing statuses: sampling condition, test condition orchromatographic column parameter changes, the chromatographic perceptionparameters for a particular sample change accordingly. The third defectof the gas chromatography is that it is difficult and even impossible toachieve a “complete separation” of multi-component chromatographicpeaks. The more the components and the closer the polarity and theretention time between the components, the more difficult the completepeak-to-peak separation. It is considered that the “complete separation”situation of multi-component chromatographic peaks in the chromatogramis relative and unusual. Conversely, incomplete separation ofmulti-component chromatographic peaks is absolute and usual. In terms ofoperating parameters, they two, to improve chromatographic separationdegree and to shorten the retention time, are sometimes contradictory.

The advantages of gas sensors are fast response speed, low workingcondition requirements, and their disadvantages are poor selectivity andunsatisfactory sensitivity. Compared with that, the advantages of the GCmethod are high sensitivity and good selectivity, and their defects arelong separation time or detection period, complex instrument structureand harsh working condition, and therefore wholly unsuitable to dolong-term online detection in their current usage. It should be notedthat the difference of “the good selectivity of GC column and the poorselectivity of MOS gas sensors” is only a relative speaking, and the“qualitative ability” of the gas chromatography to unknown samples isstill “weak”. The gas sensor array and the capillary GC column formdistinct contrast, and the fusion of them two can achieve the effect ofcomplement each other. To realize the relatively-wide-range onlineperception to fermentation processes or malodorous pollutants, theproblem to be solved is how to combine the gas sensor array with thechromatographic column to realize their complementary advantages andfurther realize long-term circulating online detection with a singleperiod of about 5-10 min. In order to realize an online detecting andanalyzing method of electronic nose instrument by fusing the gas sensorarray with the capillary gas chromatographic column, the followingtheory and analytical technique problems of odor perception need to besolved.

(A) Multi-Perception Information Selection and Fusion Method ofGas-Sensitivity-and-Chromatography and Online Perception Capability ofthe Electronic Nose Instrument.

Two characteristics of odors are as follows. (1) Numerous and changingcompositions. Take the malodorous pollutants as an example: the most ofcomponents are organic substances, or called volatile organic compounds(VOCs), except a few inorganic substances, such as H₂S, NH₃ and SO₂. (2)Some components have a low olfaction threshold, but have a largecontribution to the odor intensity, and vice versa. One dilemmaencountered by the electronic nose in practical application is that somecomponents contribute little to the odor intensity, but the gas sensoris very sensitive; and vice versa. In order to realize online odordetection, the gas sensors should have such performance indices as highsensitivity, fast response speed, stable working state, high commerciallevel, long service life, small size and good selectivity. Therefore,the characteristics of different-type gas sensors should be deeplyunderstood, and on this basis, small-type gas sensor array modules aredesigned, with the purpose to effectively solve such problems as poorstability, noise elimination, temperature and humidity compensation,easy replacement, etc.

A large number of experiments have shown that the MOS gas sensorsrepresented by SnO₂ material have a fast response speed to some odors.Only 2 s response duration is spent, for example, to measure an ethanolvolatile; however, the response speed will become very slow whiletesting some other odors, says 60 s or longer. A slow-response exampleis to sense the volatile of peach aldehyde (C₁₁H₂₀O₂), a kind ofstandard malodorous liquid specified by GB/T14675. This phenomenon tellsus that the steady-state maximum values of response curves given byseveral same-type gas sensors to two odors may be the same, but the peaktime points and/or areas under the curves may be different; orconversely, the areas under the curves may be the same, but thesteady-state maximum values and the peak time points may be different,etc. In a word, the response curve shapes of a gas sensor are related toodor compositions and many other factors, such as molecular weight,carbon number, polarity, functional group, etc.

The triangular stability refers to such a fact that at least three sides(straight lines) connected head to tail can form a stable structure, andhas such a feature that will not deform under pressure. Compared withthat, a parallelogram structure is easily deformed under pressure andthus unstable. Similarly, polygons with more than 3 sides are unstable.The triangular stability principle enlightens that only two parameters(such three cases: 2 side lengths, 2 included angles, 1 side length plus1 included angle) cannot determine a triangle structure. Needless tosay, it is not even allowed to determine the triangle structure byknowing only one parameter (two such conditions: 1 side length and 1included angle) among them.

Inspired by the triangular stability principle, multiple pieces ofsensitive information should be extracted simultaneously from a singleresponse curve of a certain gas sensor, for example, to select themaximum “steady state” response value, the peak time value and the areaunder the curve at the same time is equivalent to improve theselectivity of the electronic nose instrument from the angle of datapreprocessing. The chromatographic column response speed is at least oneorder of magnitude lower than that of the gas sensor, and the completepeak/peak separation action leads the chromatography not to satisfy theonline odor detection requirement. Inspired by the marathon lifeprototype, several highest peaks and the corresponding retention time,as well as the areas under the chromatogram curve may be extracted fromthe semi-separation chromatogram in a specified interval (say T₀=10 minor so), which may be used as the sensitive information features of thecapillary chromatogram column for the fermentation objects or malodorouspollutants, so as to improve the response speed or online capability ofthe gas chromatography.

How to select and fuse multiple pieces of feature information from theresponse curves of gas sensor array and the semi-separation chromatogramsimultaneously to improve online qualitative and quantitative analysiscapability of the electronic nose instrument is a main problem to besolved by this disclosure.

(B) Optimal Combination of Functional Units Including the Gas SensorArray and Integration and Automation of the Electronic Nose Instrument

The odor compositions are numerous, and the environment is variable. Itis uneconomical, even unrealistic, to use redundant gas-sensitiveelements to form an array to detect all types of odors. It haspreviously pointed out that either a single chromatographic column or asingle-type gas sensor array has a limited sensitive range. Therefore,there is an urgent need to provide an optimization and fusion method ofa gas sensor array and a gas chromatographic column, which modularizesand integrates an odor perception system, a gas automatic samplingsystem, a driving and control circuit, a computer and the others into atest box, and in order to develop a multipoint centralized electronicnose instrument with small size, light weight and simple and convenientoperation; the working state of each part in the instrument is preciselycontrolled, the working conditions within the instrument are optimized,and the internal ‘invariability’ is realized to cope with the external‘variability’. Ideally, one electronic nose instrument may perform asimultaneous online detection, i.e., a fixed point detection or amovable point detection, on multiple fermentation tanks or multiplemalodorous pollution observation points in a specific region in a mannerof 24 hours a day in year and month units. The simple and effectivemachine learning models and algorithms are used to realize the real-timeonline analysis and prediction of the odor intensity and theconcentration prediction of the main components, and the WIFI techniqueis used to transmit the detection data and analysis results to amonitoring center and various terminals in real-time, so as to realizethe remote monitoring of the specific regions based on the Internet.

(C) Online Analytical Capability and Intellectualization of theElectronic Nose Instrument Based on Big Data and Machine Learning.

Human society is currently in the era of big data and artificialintelligence. Such big data as health, finance, transportation,commerce, and genetics are profoundly changing people's live and workways. In our country, the setup of big ecological environment data hasbeen put on the agenda, and many governmental environmental protectiondepartments are vigorously promoting it.

It is unrealistic to estimate the intensities of complex odors and theconcentrations of multiple components online by either a single-type gassensor array, or a single gas chromatographic column or a single machinelearning model without multi-source perception data generated by theonline test of massive odors, olfactory discrimination data, andcomponent detection data of conventional instruments such as gaschromatography/mass spectrometry. Although many electronic noses dothis, the effect of the resulting detection data is very limited and thefinal results are therefore unreliable.

Because of odor complexity and environmental variability, a smalldataset is not sufficient to effectively train a machine learning modelto identify multiple odor types and quantitatively predict complex odorconstituents. Big odor data should be established on the basis ofconventional instrument detection data such as gas sensitive/gaschromatography multi-source perception data, smelling data and gaschromatography/mass spectrometry. With the big odor data, the machinelearning method can identify the odor types and quantitatively predictthe concentrations of multiple components through data mining algorithmsaccording to the current perception information. Big data and onlinecomplex multi-component prediction of odors are two contradictoryaspects, and an effective scheme is to realize type identification ofodors and real-time quantitative prediction of their intensities andconcentrations of multiple main components through deep research andeffective adoption of a machine learning model with algorithm which areas simple and effective as possible.

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SUMMARY

The present disclosure is based on existing invention patents of “anonline multi-point centralized monitoring and analyzing system andmethod for malodorous gases” (see Chinese patent application No:2018104716131), “a method for online multi-point centralized analyzingbig data driven malodorous gases by using electronic nose instrument”(see Chinese patent application No. 2018104717083) and “a multi-channelintegrated olfactory analog instrument and a method for online analyzingbio-fermentation process” (see Chinese patent application No:201310405315X), and provides an electronic nose instrument and a methodfor online detecting and analyzing multiple state parameters infermentation and malodorous pollution processes by using a combinativeelectronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatography, tosolve the problems of long-term online detection, type identificationand online quantitative prediction of an qualitative intensity index andvarious compound concentration control index values of multiplefermentation processes or multiple malodorous pollution points.

To achieve the above objectives, the present disclosure provides thefollowing technical schemes.

The electronic nose instrument includes a gas sensor array module I, acapillary gas chromatographic column module II, a gas auto-samplingmodule III, a computer control and analysis module IV and an auxiliarygas source V, which is configured to perform cyclically long-term onlinedetection and intelligent analysis of multiple bio-fermentationprocesses or multiple malodorous pollution processes.

The gas sensor array module I includes a gas sensor array I-1, anannular working chamber I-2 for installing the gas sensor array I-1, aresistance heating element I-3, a fan I-4, a thermal insulation layerI-5 and a partition plate I-6 and is located in a middle right side ofthe electronic nose instrument.

The capillary gas chromatographic column module II includes a capillarygas chromatographic column II-1, a detector II-2, an amplifier II-3, arecorder II-4, a sampling inlet II-5, a resistive heating wire II-6, afan II-7 and a thermal insulation layer II-8 and is located in an upperright side of the electronic nose instrument.

The gas auto-sampling module III includes a first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1, a second two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-2, a third two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-3, a fourth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-4, a fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-5, 5 first purifiers III-6, a first miniaturevacuum pump III-7, a first flowmeter III-8, a sixth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-9, a first throttle valve III-10, atwo-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11, a three-positionfour-port electromagnetic valve III-12, a second miniature vacuum pumpIII-13, a seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14, aneighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15, a pressurestabilizing valve III-16, a first pressure reducing valve III-17, asecond throttle valve III-18, a second purifier III-19, a secondpressure reducing valve III-20, a third purifier III-21, a thirdthrottle valve III-22, a second flowmeter III-23, a fourth throttlevalve III-24 and a fifth throttle valve III-25 and is located in a lowerright side of the electronic nose instrument.

The computer control and analysis module IV includes a computermainboard IV-1, an A/D data acquisition card IV-2, a driving and controlcircuit board IV-3, a 4-path precision direct-current stabilized voltagepower supply IV-4, a display IV-5 and a WIFI module IV-6 and is locatedin a left side of the electronic nose instrument.

One bio-fermentation process/fermentation tank or one malodorouspollution point is referred to as one monitoring point; the single gassampling period of the electronic nose instrument at one monitoringpoint is T₀=300-600 s, and is T₀=480 s by default. In the single gassampling period T₀, a tested gas at one monitoring point is respectivelysucked into the gas sensor array module I and the capillary gaschromatographic column module II by the first miniature vacuum pumpIII-7 and the second miniature vacuum pump III-13; the gas sensor arrayI-1 and the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1 generate asensitive response; and thus, the electronic nose instrument obtains agroup of response curves of the gas sensor array and a gas chromatogram,which is a gas sensitivity/gas chromatography simulation signal obtainedby perceiving a tested gas sample using the electronic nose instrument.

In the single gas sampling period T₀, the computer control and analysismodule IV selects 3 perception information from each voltage responsecurve with a duration of 60 s of the gas sensor array I-1 to satisfy atriangular stability principle and improve the qualitative andquantitative capacity of the gas sensor array, where the 3 perceptioninformation includes a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), peak timet_(gsi)(τ) corresponding to the v_(gsi)(τ), and an area A_(gsi)(τ) underthe voltage response curve. In a case where the gas sensor array I-1includes 16 gas sensors, i=1,2, . . . , 16, the computer control andanalysis module IV obtains 16*3=48 perception component in total from 16response curves of the gas sensor array in the single gas samplingperiod T₀.

In the single gas sampling period T₀, in a case where the electronicnose instrument does not pursue a complete between-peak separation of agas chromatogram, the computer control and analysis module IV selects 21perception component from a semi-separation gas chromatogram to improvethe online detection capability of the gas chromatographic column, wherethe 21 perception components include first 10 maximum chromatographicpeak values v_(gcj)(τ), 10 retention time h_(gcj)(τ) corresponding tothe first 10 maximum chromatographic peak values, and an area A_(gc)(τ)under a whole chromatogram curve.

In the single gas sampling period T₀, the electronic nose instrumentperceives tested gas in one bio-fermentation process or at one malodorpollution point; and the computer control and analysis module IV fuses48 perception components extracted from the 16 response curves of thegas sensor array I-1 and 21 perception components extracted from thesemi-separation chromatogram of the capillary gas chromatographic columnII-1 to obtain a perception vector x(τ)∈R⁶⁹ with m=48+21=69 dimensions,where the perception vector x(τ)∈R⁶⁹ is referred to as a sample; and itis used as a basis of doing a qualitative and quantitative analysis on abio-fermentation process or a malodorous pollution process by theelectronic nose instrument.

The electronic nose instrument sets a cyclical gas sampling period forn(≤5) bio-fermentation processes or n(≤5) malodorous monitoring pointsto be T=nT₀; the electronic nose instrument obtains n samples insequence, the n samples are saved in n data files of a computer harddisk corresponding to the n samples respectively, and then sample datais sent to a cloud terminal and a specifically fixed/mobile terminalthrough the WIFI routing module. If T₀=480 s, then the cyclical testedgas sampling period is T=nT₀=n*480 s, which is equivalent to detect oncein every other n*480 s for one fermentation tank or one malodorouspollution point being detected every n*480 s.

The electronic nose instrument forms the main body of big odor data Xthrough a long-term online detection of the multiple bio-fermentationprocesses and multiple malodorous pollution points over years; where thedata set X further includes offline detection data of a gaschromatography instrument, a mass spectrometry instrument and aspectrophotometric instrument, odor unit (OU) concentration dataobtained through laboratory sensory smelling, and bio-fermentation typedata of penicillin, erythromycin, vinegar, soy sauce, cooking wine andmonosodium glutamate recorded by on-site operators, and malodorouspollution monitoring region type data of a chemical industrial park, arefuse landfill, a sewage treatment plant and a livestock and poultryfarm; a part of subsets of the data set X establish a correspondingrelationship between a response vector of gas sensor array and gaschromatography and the multiple types of bio-fermentationprocesses/malodorous pollution points including a main componentconcentration.

In the learning stage, each perception component of the big odor data Xis made to be normalized, a machine learning model of the computercontrol and analysis module IV offline learns the big odor data X todetermine the structure and parameters of the machine learning model. Inthe decision-making stage, the machine learning model online leansrecent responses of gas sensitive and gas chromatography to finely tunethe parameters of the machine learning model, online determines thetypes of the multiple bio-fermentation processes and malodorouspollutions, and quantitatively predicts the concentrations of mainchemical compositions of fermentation liquids during thebio-fermentation processes or 8+1 concentration index values ofmalodorous pollutants, including 8 specified chemical components,ammonia (NH₃), hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), carbon disulfide (CS₂),trimethylamine (C₃H₉N), methyl mercaptan (CH₄S), methyl sulfide (C₂H₆S),dimethyl disulfide (C₂H₆S₂) and styrene (C₈H₈) specified by the Chinesenational standard GB14554, as well as an OU concentration value, bydepending upon a group of time-serial response patterns of gas sensorarray and gas chromatography.

The gas sensor array I-1 and the annular working chamber I-2 are locatedin a thermostatic box with a temperature of 55±0.1° C. In the single gassampling period T₀, the gas sensor array module I is made to besequentially subject to 6 stages, i.e., a rough recovery stage of thegas sensor array for T₀−120 s, an accurate calibration stage by dry airfor 40 s, a balance stage for 5 s, a headspace sampling stage of testedgas for 60 s, a transition stage for 5 s and a flushing stage by cleanambient air for 10 s. Gas types and flow rates for these 6 stages are inorder: (i) clean ambient air of 6,500 ml/min; (ii) dry air of 1,000ml/min; (iii) no gas flow; (iv) tested gas of 1,000 ml/min; (v) cleanambient air of 1,000 ml/min; (vi) clean ambient air of 6,500 ml/min;where “transition” mainly refers to a change from the tested gas to theclean ambient air.

An interval of [T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s] in the single gas sampling period T₀is the headspace sampling stage of the gas sensor array module I for thetested gas, one two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5) among the first two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-1 is set to the fifth two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-5 to be on, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valveIII-12 is set to be “0”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-9 is set to be off, the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 is set to be off, and the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be on; andunder the suction action of the first miniature vacuum pump III-7, atested gas at one monitoring point is made to sequentially flow through,at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, the k^(th) two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-k (k=1, 2, . . . , 5), the eighth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-15, the pressure stabilizing valveIII-16, the annular working chamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, thefirst throttle valve III-10 and the first flowmeter III-8, and finally,the tested gas is discharged to outdoor by lasting 60 s, and therefore,the gas sensor array I-1 generates a sensitive response to the testedgas, and the sensitive response is stored in a temporary file of thecomputer control and analysis module IV.

An interval of [T₀−120 s, T₀−80 s] of the single gas sampling period T₀is the accurate calibration stage of the gas sensor array module I bythe dry air, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12is set to be “1”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-9, the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14,and the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 areset to be off; and dry air in the dry air bottle V-2 is made tosequentially flow through, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, the firstpressure reducing valve III-17, the second throttle valve III-18, thesecond purifier III-19, the three-position four-port electromagneticvalve III-12, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular workingchamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, the first throttle valve III-10and the first flowmeter III-8, and finally, the dry air is discharged tooutdoor by lasting 40 s. During this period, the gas sensor array I-1 ismade to accurately restore to a reference state under the role of thedry air. As the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-15 is set to be off, whether the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 are off or on does not affect a calibrationof the gas sensor array I-1.

The “clean ambient air” is the kind of the outdoor air in where theelectronic nose instrument is located by the dust removal,dehumidification and aseptic pretreatments, the clean ambient air isonly used for the rough recovery of the gas sensor array I-1, flushinginner walls of the annular working chamber I-2 as well as relatedpipelines, and taking away the accumulated heat volume generated by thegas sensor array I-1. In two intervals of [0, T₀−120 s] and [T₀−10 s,T₀] of the single gas sampling period T₀, the three-position four-portelectromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be “2”, the sixth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is set to be on, and the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be off; andthe clean ambient air is made to sequentially flow through, at a flowrate of 6,500 ml/min, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valveIII-12, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular workingchamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, the sixth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-9 and the first flowmeter III-8, and finally,the clean ambient air is discharged to outdoor by lasting T₀−110 s.During this period, the gas sensor array I-1 is made to roughly recoverto a reference state under the role of the clean ambient air; as theeighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to beoff, whether the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 are offor on does not affect a rough recovery of the gas sensor array I-1.

A size of a commercially available capillary gas chromatographic columnII-1 is set to be a length ‘L’ times an inner diameter ‘ϕd’ times a filmthickness ‘δ’, namely L×ϕd×=30 m×ϕ0.53 mm×0.25 μm, by default, and islocated in a thermostatic box with a temperature of 250-300±0.1° C. Inthe single gas sampling period T₀, the capillary gas chromatographiccolumn module II sequentially undergo three stages, i.e., a headspacesampling stage of the tested gas for Is, a chromatographic separationstage of the tested gas for T₀−16 s, and an emptying and purging stagefor 15 s; where H₂ is also used as a carrier gas and a fuel gas, and adry air is used as a combustion-supporting gas.

The initial is of the single gas sampling period T₀ is the headspacesampling stage of the tested gas by the capillary gas chromatographiccolumn module II, one two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5) among the first two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-5 is set to be on, the two-position three-port electromagnetic valveIII-11 is set to be “1”, the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 is set to be on, and the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be off. Atthe moment, under the suction action of the second miniature vacuum pumpIII-13, tested gas at a monitoring point k is made to sequentially flowthrough the one two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5) among the first two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-5, the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14,the two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 and the fourththrottle valve III-24, and it is mixed with the carrier gas H₂ at thesampling inlet II-5 to flow into the capillary gas chromatographiccolumn II-1 and last for 1 s, where a sampling flow rate of the testedgas is 6 ml/min by default, a sampling duration is 1 s by default, andan cumulative sampling amount is 0.1 ml by default.

An interval of [1 s, T₀−10 s] in the single gas sampling period T₀ isthe chromatographic separation stage of the capillary gaschromatographic column module II for the tested gas, and thetwo-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 is set to be “2”,and the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 isset to be off, so that tested gas from the monitoring point k cannotenter the gas chromatographic column module II for T₀−11 s. Under thepushing action of the carrier gas H₂ with a certain pressure and acertain flow rate, the tested gas is injected into the sampling inletII-5 of the gas chromatographic column module II are separated in thecapillary gas chromatographic column II-1, a perception response isgenerated through the detector II-2, the perception response isamplified through the amplifier II-3, the recorder II-4 records theperception response within an interval of [0, T₀−10 s], i.e., a durationof T₀−10 s of the chromatographic column II-1, and the perceptionresponse is saved within the interval of [0, T₀−10 s] in a temporaryfile of the computer control and analysis module IV.

An interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀] with a duration of 10 s in the single gassampling period T₀ is an emptying and purging stage of the capillary gaschromatographic column II-1, the one two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-k in an originally on state among the firsttwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 is set to be off, andone of four two-position two-port electromagnetic valves in anoriginally off state among the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-5 is set to be on; the two-position three-portelectromagnetic valve III-11 is set to be “2”, the seventh two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-14 is set to be on, the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be off.Assuming that the two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-(˜k)is on (k=1, 2, . . . , 5), under the suction action of the second microvacuum pump III-13, a tested gas is made to sequentially flow through,at a flow rate of 330 ml/min, the two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-(˜k), the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-14 and the two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11, andfinally, the tested gas is discharged to outdoor directly, so that gasresidues from a monitoring point k in a current gas sampling period of arelated pipeline is removed, and the pipeline is gradually filled withthe tested gases from the monitoring point ˜k to prepare a detection ofnext bio-fermentation process or malodorous pollution monitoring pointin a next gas sampling period, and a detection duration is 10 s.

An interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀] of the single gas sampling period T₀ isstill an information selection and analysis time stage, the computercontrol and analysis module IV selects 48 pieces of perceptioninformation including a group of steady-state peak values v_(gsi)(τ),i=1,2, . . . 16 from a group of voltage response curves of the gassensor array I-1 obtained in an interval of [T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s]. 21perception components including the first 10 maximum chromatographicpeak values v_(gcj)(τ), j=1,2, . . . 10 are selected from a chromatogramobtained in an interval of [0, T₀−10 s]. It is used as a basis offurther doing an analysis on a bio-fermentation process or a malodorouspollution region by the electronic nose instrument. The computer controland analysis module IV performs a type identification of an odor and aquantitative prediction its overall intensity as well as the mainconcentration index values according to the current pattern vector x(τ)and the big odor data X.

In the single gas sampling period T₀, in a case where onebio-fermentation process or one malodorous pollution point is detectedonly, the cyclical tested gas sampling period is made to be T=T₀. In acase where k bio-fermentation processes or malodorous pollution pointsare simultaneously detected in sequence in the specified time stage, thecyclical sampling period for one of multiple tested gas samples from thek bio-fermentation processes and/or malodorous pollution points is madeto be T=k*T₀. In a case where the one of the k bio-fermentationprocesses and/or malodorous pollution points exits from the currentlong-term circulation monitoring process, the cyclical sampling periodchange of tested gas samples is made to be changed into T=(k−1)*T₀ fromthe original T=k*T₀. Similarly, in the long-term circulation monitoringprocess, in a case where a new bio-fermentation processes or malodorouspollution point is added to the present long-term circulation detectionprocess in the midway, the cyclical sampling period of tested gassamples is made to change into T=(k+1)*T₀, where a corresponding datarecording period is changed from the moment while one bio-fermentationprocess or one malodorous pollution point exits or joins.

In the single gas sampling period T₀, an interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀] is aninformation selection and analysis stage with a duration of 10 s, thecomputer control and analysis module IV performs information selectionand analysis operations on the gas sensor array module I and thecapillary gas chromatographic column module II. The computer control andanalysis module IV selects 3 components of perception information, i.e.,a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), a corresponding peak timet_(gsi)(τ) and an area under the curve A_(gsi)(τ) from the i^(th)voltage response curve of the gas sensor array I-1 obtained in aninterval of [T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s] with a duration of 60 s; the computercontrol and analysis module IV selects 21 perception responsecomponents, i.e., the first 10 maximum chromatographic peak valuesv_(gcj)(τ), the 10 retention time t_(gcj)(τ) corresponding to the first10 maximum chromatographic peak values, and the 1 area A_(gc)(τ) underthe semi-separation chromatogram curve from the capillary gaschromatographic column II-1 in an interval of [0, T₀−10 s], i.e., aduration of 6 s; and the 21 perception response components are saved ina temporary file of the computer hard disk.

In the single gas sampling period T₀, in a case where the number q ofchromatographic peaks of the semi-separation chromatogram with aduration of T₀−10 s is less than 10, or q<10, the computer control andanalysis module IV selects the first q<10 maximum chromatographic peakvalues h_(gcj)(τ), the corresponding q<10 retention time valuest_(gcj)(τ), and 1 area under the chromatogram curve A_(gc)(τ), all fromthe semi-separation chromatogram, and then a zero-filling operation isperformed to the insufficient peak values and the correspondingretention time values; where the obtained chromatogram perceptioninformation is x_(gc)(τ)={(h_(gc1)(τ), h_(gc2)(τ), . . . , h_(gcq)(τ),0, . . . , 0); (t_(gc1) (τ), t_(gc2) (τ), . . . , t_(gcq)(τ), 0, . . . ,0); A_(gc)(τ)}.

A last 10 s of the single gas sampling period T₀ is an informationprocessing and analysis interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀], a modular machinelearning model of the computer control and analysis module IV performs atype identification of an odor and a quantitative prediction of itsoverall intensity as well as many concentration index values of maincomponents on a bio-fermentation process and/or malodorous pollutionpoint based on a recent time-series response matrix X(τ−q) given by agas sensitivity and a gas chromatography, the method includes: a type ofbio-fermentation process and a malodorous pollution point areidentified; a quantitative concentration estimation is performed oncells, substrates and even bio-products in the multiple bio-fermentationprocesses; for instance, a quantitative concentration estimation isperformed on such precursor substances as n-propanol and phenylaceticacid in different fermentation processes; and a quantitativeconcentration prediction is performed on (8+1) kinds of malodorouspollutants specified by GB14554, where τ is a current time point, q is arecently elapsed time point, and r-q is a recent interval.

Also included in the big odor data X are: the gas sensitive/gaschromatographic data sensitized by an electronic nose instrument formultiple headspace vapors of simple compounds with a concentration of0.1 ppm to 10000 ppm; offline detection data of a gas chromatographic, amass spectrometric and a spectrophotometric instrument; professionallaboratory olfactory data; and especially multiple simple compounds notonly include such precursor substances as n-propanol, phenylacetic acidin the bio-fermentation processes; but also includes 8 malodorouscompounds specified by GB14554; and the standard reference substance ofodor concentration (OU) value, butanol, specified by the Europeanstandard EN13725.

The machine learning model includes multiple modular deep convolutionalneural networks; the number of the modular single-output deepconvolutional neural networks are equal to either the main predictedcomponent number of fermentation liquors in the multiplebio-fermentation processes plus the objective odor-type number detected,or the main concentration index number of malodorous pollutants plus theobjective odor-type number, each for one. One single-output deepconvolutional neural network in the multiple modular single-output deepconvolutional neural networks includes 1 input layer, 3 convolutionallayers, 2 down-sampling layers and 1 output unit, and activationfunctions in each convolutional layer, each down-sampling layer and theoutput layer are all a Sigmoid correction activation functionƒ(φ)=3(1+exp(−φ/3))⁻¹. In the learning stage, the each single-outputdeep convolutional neural network adopts an offline layer-wise errorback-propagation algorithm to mainly learn the big odor data X withlabels and/or known components; a scan window in each convolutionallayer is set to be 55, and an overlapping scan step length is set to be1; 6 single-type kernels, a sine, a cosine, a polynomial, a Gaussian, aSigmoid, a wavelet and a Laplace kernel are made to form a group ofcombined convolution kernels; a scan window in each down-sampling layeris set to be 2×2, a non-overlapping scan step length is set to be 2, andsuch 3 features as a maximum, a mean and a mean-square-error value areextracted; and in the decision-making stage, n single-output deepconvolutional neural network models perform an odor type identification,and an intensity estimation and prediction of their intensities and maincomponent concentrations one by one at a current time point r and comingτ+1, τ+2 and τ+3, according to a current gas sensitive/gaschromatographic response vector x(τ) and a recently occurred time-seriesresponse matrix X(τ−q).

By means of the gas-sensitive-gas-chromatographic electronic noseinstrument and the online analysis method of multiple state parametersof fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes of the presentdisclosure, that the electronic nose instrument performs a long-termonline circulation detection and an online analysis prediction ofmultiple bio-fermentation processes/malodorous pollution points includesthe following steps:

(1) Power-on operation: performing a preheating operation in theelectronic nose instrument for 30 min.

The single gas sampling period T₀ in a screen menu is set as a defaultvalue T₀=8 min, and a cyclical gas sampling period for 5 monitoringpoints is set to be T=5T₀.

The three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be“2”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is setto be on and the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-15 is set to be off, under the suction action of the first miniaturevacuum pump III-7, clean ambient air is made to sequentially flowthrough, at a flow rate of 6,500 ml/min, the three-position four-portelectromagnetic valve III-12, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, theannular working chamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, the sixthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 and the firstflowmeter III-8, and finally, the clean ambient air is discharged tooutdoor. Therefore, the annular working chamber for installing the gassensor array I-1 reaches a constant internal temperature of 55+0.1° C.

The two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 is set to be“2”, and the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14is set to be off. Under the pushing role of the carrier gas H₂, thecapillary gas chromatographic column II-1 is made to gradually recoverto a reference state, and thus the chromatographic column box reaches aconstant internal temperature of 250±0.1° C.

(2) Beginning a cyclical gas sampling period:

An option with “monitoring point k on” in a screen menu of the displayIV-5 is clicked, where k=1, 2, . . . , 5, the electronic nose instrumentperforms a continuous and cyclical detection until the operator clicksan option with “monitoring point k off”; in a process that theelectronic nose instrument performs a cyclical detection on the 5monitoring points in order, the computer control and analysis module IVautomatically generates 5 text files respectively to save the sensitiveresponse data of the gas sensor array I-1 and the capillary gaschromatographic column module II to the tested gases at the 5 monitoringpoints.

(3) Beginning the single gas sampling period at a monitoring point kamong the 5 monitoring points: a default period value T₀=8 min is takenas an example:

(3.1) For the gas sensor array module I: the following six gas samplingstages are undergone in order, i.e., (i) a rough recovery stage for 360s, (ii) an accurate calibration stage for 40 s, (iii) a balance stagefor 5 s, (iv) a headspace sampling stage for 60 s, (v) a transitionstage for 5 s, and (vi) a cleaning and rough recovery stage for 10 s.

(3.1a) The rough recovery stage from 0 s to the 360^(th) sec of thesingle gas sampling period T₀.

The three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be“2”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is setto be on, and the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-15 is set to be off. Under the suction action of the first miniaturevacuum pump III-7, the clean ambient air is made to flow through, at aflow rate of 6,500 ml/min, the three-position four-port electromagneticvalve III-12, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular workingchamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, the sixth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-9 and the first flowmeter III-8 in order, andfinally, the clean ambient air is discharged to outdoor. Therefore, thegas sensor array I-1 is made to initially recover to a reference state.

(3.1b) For the accurate calibration stage from the 360^(th) sec to the400^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀.

The three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be“1”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is setto be off, the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-14 is set to be off, and the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be off. Under the suction actionof the first miniature vacuum pump III-7, dry air is made to flowthrough, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, the first pressure reducingvalve III-17, the second throttle valve III-18, the second purifierIII-19, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, thepressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2, thegas sensor array I-1 in the annular working chamber I-2, the firstthrottle valve III-10 and the first flowmeter III-8 in order, andfinally, the dry air is discharged to outdoor by lasting 40 s.Therefore, the gas sensor array I-1 is made to accurately recover to areference state.

(3.1c) For the balance stage from the 400^(th) sec to the 405^(th) secof the single gas sampling period T₀.

The three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be“0”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is setto be off, and the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-15 is set to be off, so that no gas flows in the annular workingchamber I-2 for 5 s.

(3.1d) For the headspace sampling stage from the 405^(th) sec to the465^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀.

The two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5)among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 is set to be on,the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be“0”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is setto be off, the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-14 is set to be off, and the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be on. Under the suction actionof the first miniature vacuum pump III-7, the tested gas at a monitoringpoint is made to flow through, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, thetwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5),the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15, thepressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2 andthe gas sensor array I-1, the first throttle valve III-10 and the firstflowmeter III-8 in order, and finally, the tested gas is discharged tooutdoor by lasting 60 s. Therefore, the gas sensor array I-1 generates asensitive response, and the sensitive response is saved in a temporaryfile corresponding to the computer control and analysis module IV.

(3.1e) For the transition stage from the 465^(th) sec to the 470^(th)sec of the single gas sampling period T₀.

The three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is set to be“2”, the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 isset to be off, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-9 is set to be off, and the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 is set to be off. Under the suction actionof the first miniature vacuum pump III-7, the clean ambient air is madeto flow through, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, the three-positionfour-port electromagnetic valve III-12, the pressure stabilizing valveIII-16, the annular working chamber i-2 and the gas sensor array I-1,the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 and thefirst flowmeter III-8 in order, and finally, the ambient air isdischarged to outdoor;

(3.1f) For the cleaning and rough recovery stage from the 470^(th) secto the 480^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀.

Compared with the “transition stage”, the positions of the rest valvesare the same except that the sixth two-position two-way electromagneticvalve III-9 is changed from “off” to “on”. The flow rate of the cleanambient air thus is changed from “1,000 ml/min” to “6,500 ml/min”; and avalve position and a working state of the stage is made to be completelythe same and match with a valve position and a working state of a “roughrecovery” stage of a next gas sampling period.

(3.2) For a capillary gas chromatographic column II module, (i) aheadspace sampling stage for 1 s, (ii) a chromatographic separationstage for 469 s and (iii) an emptying and cleaning stage for 10 s aresequentially undergone.

(3.2a) For the headspace sampling stage from 0 s to the 1^(st) sec ofthe single gas sampling period T₀.

One of the five two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5) among the first two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-5 is set to be on, the two-position three-port electromagnetic valveIII-11 is set to be “1”, the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 is set to be on, and the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to be off.Under the suction action of the second miniature vacuum pump III-13, thetested gas at a monitoring point k is made to flow through the k^(th)two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5),the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14, thetwo-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 and the fourththrottle valve III-24 in order, and the carrier gas H₂ is mixed at thesampling inlet II-5 to flow into the capillary gas chromatographiccolumn II-1 for 1 s.

(3.2b) For the chromatographic separation stage from the 1^(st) sec tothe 470^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀.

The two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 is set to be“2”, and the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14is set to be off. Under the pushing role of carrier gas H₂ with acertain pressure and flow, the tested gas is separated in the capillarygas chromatographic column II-1, a perception response is generatedthrough the detector II-2, the perception response is amplified throughthe amplifier II-3, the recorder II-4 records the perception response ata duration of 470 s within an interval of [0, 470 s] to form asemi-separation chromatographic peak graph. The semi-separationchromatographic peak graph is saved in a temporary file corresponding tothe computer control and analysis module IV.

(3.3) Information selection and analysis operation, in a time stage fromthe 470^(th) sec to the 480^(th) sec of the single gas sampling periodT₀.

The computer control and analysis module IV selects 3 pieces ofsensitive information, i.e., a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), acorresponding peak time t_(gsi)(τ), and an area under the whole curveA_(gsi)(τ) from a single voltage response curve which is obtained byeach gas sensor in an interval of [405 s, 465 s] and lasts for 60 s, toobtain 16*3=48 pieces of sensitive information by the gas sensor arrayI-1 including 16 gas sensors. The computer control and analysis moduleIV simultaneously selects first 10 maximum chromatographic peak valuesv_(gcj)(τ), 10 corresponding retention time values t_(gcj)(τ), and anarea under a total chromatogram curve A_(gc)(τ) from the semi-separationchromatogram with a duration of 470 s by the capillary gaschromatographic column module II, to obtain 21 pieces of perceptioninformation; the computer control and analysis module IV obtains 1response vector x(τ)∈R⁶⁹ with 69 dimensions from the sensitiveinformation of the gas sensor array module I and the capillarychromatography column module II in the signal gas sampling period T₀. Amachine learning model performs an odor type identification and anoverall intensity and main component quantitative prediction based onthe sensitive vector x(τ) and the big odor data X, the monitor displaysthe detection and prediction results, and then transmit them to acentral control room and multiple fixed/mobile terminals through theInternet network.

(3.4) Ending the Current Monitoring Point k and Beginning a NextMonitoring Point.

The k^(th) two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . .. , 5) among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 is set tobe from ‘on’ to ‘off’, and the two-position two-port electromagneticvalve corresponding to a next monitoring point among the firsttwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 is set to be on.

(4) Repeat the steps (3.1)˜(3.4), and the electronic nose instrumentrealizes online cyclical detection, identification and quantitativeprediction of odor intensity and multiple concentration index values ofthe tested gases at the 1˜5 monitoring points.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a technical route of gas sensitive/gaschromatographic multi-perception information fusion, electronic noseinstrument development, fermentation tail gas and malodorous odor onlinedetection and multi-process parameter analysis—a method for onlinedetecting and analyzing multiple state parameters of fermentation andmalodorous pollutant processes by using an electronic nose instrument ofgas sensitivity and gas chromatography provided in the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a working principle of an electronicnose instrument—a method for online detecting and analyzing multiplestate parameters of fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes byusing an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gaschromatography provided in the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a working principle of a gas sensorarray module and its gas circuit—a method for online detecting andanalyzing multiple state parameters of fermentation and malodorouspollutant processes by using an electronic nose instrument of gassensitivity and gas chromatography provided in the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a working principle of a capillary gaschromatographic column module and its gas circuit—a method for onlinedetecting and analyzing multiple state parameters of fermentation andmalodorous pollutant processes by using an electronic nose instrument ofgas sensitivity and gas chromatography provided in the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a gas sensor array module and acapillary gas chromatographic column module—a method for onlinedetecting and analyzing multiple state parameters of fermentation andmalodorous pollutant processes by using an electronic nose instrument ofgas sensitivity and gas chromatography provided in the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of gas sampling time, a flow rate, and agas sensor response change of a capillary gas chromatographic column anda gas sensitive array module in the single gas sampling period T₀=480s—a method for online detecting and analyzing multiple state parametersof fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes by using anelectronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyprovided in the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of multi-information selection of a gassensor response curve in the single gas sampling period T₀=480 s—amethod for online detecting and analyzing multiple state parameters offermentation and malodorous pollutant processes by using an electronicnose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatography provided inthe present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of multi-information selection of asemi-separation chromatogram in the single gas sampling period T₀=480s—a method for online detecting and analyzing multiple state parametersof fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes by using anelectronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyprovided in the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of multi-information selection of asemi-separation chromatogram when a number of chromatographic peaks isless than or greater than 10 in the single gas sampling period T₀=480s—a method for online detecting and analyzing multiple state parametersof fermentation and malodorous pollutant processes by using anelectronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyprovided in the present disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of online quantitative prediction ofmulti-parameter “divide-and-conquer” of a modular deep convolutionalneural network model—a method for online detecting and analyzingmultiple state parameters of fermentation and malodorous pollutantprocesses by using an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity andgas chromatography provided in the present disclosure.

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The present disclosure will be further described in details below withthe above accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of technical routes such as a perceptioninformation fusion of a gas sensor array and a capillary gaschromatographic column, an electronic nose instrument development, anonline multi-source detection of fermentation tail gases and malodorousodors a multi-process parameter analysis provided in the presentdisclosure. The technical route shown in FIG. 1 includes: (1) Evaluatingand selecting performance of gas sensitive and gas chromatographicperception elements, in this route, the characteristic differencebetween a gas sensor and a capillary gas chromatographic column isdeeply analyzed, so that the advantages of them two are complemented.(2) A technology route for modularizing a component such as a gas sensorarray, in this route, structural modularization of important componentssuch as a gas sensor array, a capillary gas chromatographic column, anautomatic gas sampling, computer control and analysis is realized. (3)An online gas sensitive-gas chromatography perception model andinformation fusion technical route, in this route, a gas sensor responsecurve multi-information selection method satisfying the triangularstability principle and a semi-separation chromatogram multi-informationselection method simulating a marathon game scene are provided, so thatonline perception and information fusion of the gas sensor array and thecapillary gas chromatographic column are realized. (4) A technical routefor establishing big odor data, in this technical route, big odor data Xis formed on the basis of conventional offline instrument detection datasuch as electronic nose instrument with online multi-source gassensitive/gas chromatographic perception data, professional laboratorysmelling data, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, spectrophotometryin a large number of bio-fermentation processes or malodorous pollutionpoints. (5) Offline learning and online fine-tuning technical route of amachine learning model, and in this route, the machine learning modellearns X offline to optimize and determine a model structure andmultiple parameters; in a decision-making stage, the machine learningmodel learns the near-term responses of the gas sensitive/gaschromatography online to finely tune the parameter, determines thebio-fermentation process or the odor pollution type online according toa current perception vector x(τ) of the gas sensitivity/gaschromatography, and quantitatively predicts a concentration of maincomponents of the fermentation liquors in the bio-fermentation processesor the concentrations of 8 components of malodorous pollutants specifiedby the Chinese national standard GB14554 and an OU value of thequalitative odor concentrations, so as to realize long-term onlinecirculating detection and analysis of complex odors in multiplebio-fermentation processes and multiple malodorous pollution points.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a working principle of an electronicnose instrument by combining gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyprovided in the disclosure. The electronic nose instrument mainlyincludes a gas sensor array module I, a capillary gas chromatographiccolumn module II, a gas auto-sampling module III, a computer control andanalysis module IV, a hydrogen bottle V and a dry air bottle VI. H₂ isalso used as a carrier gas and a fuel gas of a hydrogen flame ionizationdetector (FID) of the capillary gas chromatographic column module II;and dry air serves as combustion-supporting gas of the capillary gaschromatographic column module II on one hand and serves as calibrationgas (not combusted) of the gas sensor array module I on the other hand.

FIGS. 3 and 4 are two working principle diagrams of a gas sensor arraymodule I, a capillary gas chromatographic column module II and a gascircuit of an electronic nose instrument provided in the presentdisclosure, respectively.

A main component units of the gas sensor array module I include a gassensor array I-1, an annular working chamber I-2, a resistance heatingelement I-3, a fan I-4, a thermal insulation layer I-5 and a partitionplate I-6, which are located in a middle right part of the electronicnose instrument. The capillary gas chromatographic column module IImainly includes a capillary gas chromatographic column II-1, a detectorII-2, an amplifier II-3, a recorder II-4, a sampling inlet II-5, aresistance heating wire II-6, a fan II-7 and a thermal insulation layerII-8, which are located in the upper right part of the electronic noseinstrument. The gas sensor array module I and the capillary gaschromatographic column module II are configured to convert chemical andphysical information of odors into electric signals online.

A component units of the gas auto-sampling module III associated withthe gas sensor array module I include: first to fifth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valves III-1-III-5, a second two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-2, a third two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-3, a fourth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-4, a fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-5, a first purifier III-6, a first miniaturevacuum pump III-7, a first flowmeter III-8, a sixth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-9, a first throttle valve III-10, athree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, a seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14, an eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15, a pressurestabilizing valve III-16, a first pressure reducing valve III-17, asecond throttle valve III-18 and a second purifier III-19.

A component units of the gas auto-sampling module III associated withthe capillary gas chromatographic column module II include: atwo-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11, a second miniaturevacuum pump III-13, a second pressure reducing valve III-20, a thirdpurifier III-21, a third throttle valve III-22, a second flowmeterIII-23, a fourth throttle valve III-24 and a fifth throttle valveIII-25. The gas auto-sampling module III is located in a lower rightpart of the electronic nose instrument.

A main component units of the computer control and analysis module IVinclude: a computer mainboard IV-1, an A/D data acquisition card IV-2, adriving and control circuit board IV-3, a 4-path precisiondirect-current stabilized voltage power supply IV-4, a display IV-5 anda WIFI module IV-6, which are located in a left side of the electronicnose instrument. The WIFI module IV-6 is configured to transmitperception information of the gas sensor array module I and thecapillary gas chromatographic column module II to a specifiedfixed/mobile terminal in real time.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a gas sensor array module I and acapillary gas chromatographic column module II of an electronic noseinstrument. The gas sensor array and the capillary gas chromatographiccolumn are located in two thermostatic boxes with different constanttemperatures to form two modules which may be conveniently replacedaccording to the need.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of gas sampling time, a flow rate and agas sensor response change condition of the gas sensor array module Iand the capillary gas chromatographic column module II in the single gassampling period T₀=480 s of the electronic nose instrument. The singlegas sampling period may be adjusted between T₀=5-10 min, and FIG. 6 isexemplified by a default gas sampling period T₀=480 s. An adjustabletime period is mainly a flushing stage by clean ambient air/roughrecovery stage of the gas sensors in the gas sensor array module I and aseparation stage of the capillary gas chromatographic column module II.FIG. 6 shows that in the single gas sampling period T₀=480 s, the gassensor array module I and the capillary gas chromatographic columnmodule II are not equal in sampling flow rates and accumulated samplingamount for a tested gas and are not synchronous in the sampling timepoints, but the information selection and analysis regions are performedsimultaneously in the last 10 s time stage.

FIG. 6 a shows a condition of the single gas sampling period of thecapillary gas chromatographic column module II, and it includes threestages: (i) a headspace sampling stage of a tested gas, (ii) achromatographic separation stage of the tested gas, (iii)chromatographic column emptying stage. (i) the headspace sampling stageof the tested gas is in the beginning of the single gas sampling periodT₀, the sampling duration range is 0.5 s-1.5 s, is by default; thesampling flow rate range is 1.5 ml/min˜15 ml/min, 6 ml/min by default;and the cumulative sampling volume range is 0.0125 ml˜0.375 ml, 0.1 mlby default.

TABLE 1 the working parameters of the capillary gas chromatographiccolumn module II and the on/off status of the relevant electromagneticvalves in a single gas sampling period T₀ = 300-600 s (480 s by default)Initial 2-position 2-position 3-position 2-position 2-position Durationtime-point Flow rate 3-port valve 2-port valves 4-port valve 2-portvalve 2-port valve Stage Description (s) (s) (ml/min) Gas type III-11III-1~III-5 III-12 III-14 III-15 (i) gas sampling 0.5-1.5 0 1.5~15 tested gas “1” III-k on “2” on off (ii) chromatographic 289-589 1 30~50tested “2” III-k on “1”only off only on separation gas + H₂ 40 s 60 s(iii) chromatographic 10 290-590 30~50 H₂ “1” III-(~k) on “2” on offcolumn emptying

Referring to FIG. 6 , in conjunction with FIG. 4 , Table 1 gives theworking parameters of the capillary gas chromatographic column module IIand the on/off status of the relevant electromagnetic valves in thesingle gas sampling period T₀=480 s. In the headspace sampling stage ofa tested gas (i), the two-position three-port electromagnetic valveIII-11 is positioned at “1”, the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 is on, one of the first two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-11 to the fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-5 is on, and the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 is off. Supposed that the firsttwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 is on, and at themoment, the tested gas in a bio-fermentation process (fermentation tank)or a malodorous pollution point, say a first monitoring point,sequentially flows through the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1, the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14, the two-position three-portelectromagnetic valve III-11 and the fourth throttle valve III-24 underthe suction action of the second miniature vacuum pump III-13, and thenmixes with a carrier gas H₂ at the sampling inlet II-5, and thus flowsinto the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1.

In the headspace sampling stage of tested gas (i), if the defaultsampling flowrate is 6 ml/min and the default sampling duration is 1 s,then the sampling volume of the tested gas is 0.1 ml, which satisfiesthe optimal sampling amount requirement of the capillary gaschromatographic column. In the 369 s chromatographic separation stage ofthe tested gas (ii), in the T₀=480 s period, the two-position three-portelectromagnetic valve III-11 is positioned at “2”, and the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 is off, namely thetested gas is cut off. During the period, under the pushing action ofthe carrier gas H₂, the components of the tested gas are separated apartin the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1.

In the chromatographic column emptying stage (iii) for the last 10 s ofthe single gas sampling period T₀, namely a cleaning and purging stage,the two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 is positionedat “2”, the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14is on, one of the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-1 to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 ison (but off when it is originally on), and the eighth two-porttwo-position electromagnetic valve III-15 is off. Supposed that thefirst two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 is on, thesequential air flow through the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1, the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 and the two-position three-portelectromagnetic valve III-11 under the suction action of the secondminiature vacuum pump III-13 and is then discharged to the outdoors. Inthis stage, the residues of the related pipelines in the current gassampling period can be removed, and the preparation is made for the nextgas sampling period. It should be noted that a position of thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is determined byTable 2 given later.

Referring to FIG. 6 , in conjunction with FIG. 3 , Table 2 gives theworking parameters of the gas sensor array module I and the on/offstatus of the relevant electromagnetic valves in the single gas samplingperiod T₀.

Multiple main working states of the gas sensor array module I areelaborated in detail by using the single gas sampling period T₀=480 s asan example.

In the headspace sampling stage of a tested gas (iv), namely the 405s-465 s duration by lasting 60 s in the single gas sampling period T₀,one of the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 tothe fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 is on only,the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is positioned“0”, and the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 andthe seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 are off,and the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is on.The tested gas in one of 5 bio-fermentation processes (fermentationtanks) or one of malodorous pollution points (such as a first monitoringpoint) sequentially flows through, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, oneof the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5, the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15, the pressurestabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2 and the gassensor array I-1 in the annular working chamber I-2, the first throttlevalve III-10, and the first flowmeter III-8 under the suction action ofthe first miniature vacuum pump III-7, and the tested gas is dischargedto outdoor by lasting 60 s. During this time stage, the gas sensor arrayI-1 generates a sensitive response to the tested gas.

In the accurate calibration stage by dry air (ii), namely the 360 s-400s time duration of the single gas sampling period T₀, the three-positionfour-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is positioned at “1”, the sixthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9, the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 and the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 are off, the dry airin the dry air bottle VI sequentially flows through, at a flow rate of1,000 ml/min, the first pressure reducing valve III-17, the secondthrottle valve III-18, the second purifier III-19, the three-positionfour-port electromagnetic valve III-12, the pressure stabilizing valveIII-16, the annular working chamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, thefirst throttle valve III-10 and the first flowmeter III-8, and finallyis discharged to outdoor by lasting 40 s. During this stage, the gassensor array I-1 accurately recovers to a reference state under the roleof dry air. As the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-15 is off, the on/off status of the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-5 do not affect the calibration of the gassensor array I-1.

TABLE 2 the working parameters of the gas sensor array module I and theon/off status of the relevant electromagnetic valves in a single gassampling period T₀ = 300-600 s (480 s by default). Initial 2-position2-position 3-position 2-position 2-position Duration time-point Flowrate 2-port valves 2-port valve 4-port valve 2-port valve 2-port valveStage Description (s) (s) (ml/min) Gas type III-1~III-5 III-9 III-12III-14 III-15 (i) Rough 180-480 0 6,500 Clean ambient III-k on only OnPosition ‘2’ On 0.5-1.5 s Off recovery air (ii) Dry gas 40 180-480 1,000Dry air III-k on only Off Position ‘1’ Off Off calibration (iii) Balance5 220-520 0 — III-k on only Off Position ‘0’ Off Off (iv) Headspace 60225-525 1,000 Tested gas III-k on only Off Position ‘0’ Off On sampling(v) Transition 5 285-585 1,000 Clean ambient III-(~k) on only OffPosition ‘2’ On Off air (vi) Clean ambient 10 290-590 6,500 Cleanambient III-(~k) on only On Position ‘2’ On Off air flushing air

In the rough recovery stage of the gas sensors (i) and the flushingstage by clean ambient air (vi), namely two time durations of 0 s-360 sand 470 s-480 s lasting 370 s of the single gas sampling period T₀, thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 is 1 positioned at“2”, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 is on,and the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 isoff, the clean ambient air sequentially flows through, at a flow rate of6,500 ml/min, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12,the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2,the gas sensor array I-1 within the annular working chamber I-2, thesixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 and the firstflowmeter III-8, and finally is discharged to outdoor for 370 s. Underthe role of the clean ambient air, the gas sensor array I-1 iselementarily recovered to a reference state. As the eighth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is off, whether the firsttwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 to the fifthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5, the sixthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 and the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 are on or off doesnot affect the rough recovery of the gas sensor array I-1.

It should be pointed out that “the clean ambient air” is the kind of theoutdoor air at where the electronic nose instrument is located by thedust removal, dehumidification and aseptic pretreatments, and is onlyused for the rough recovery of the gas sensor array I-1, flushing theinner walls of the annular working chamber I-2 as well as the relatedpipelines, and taking away the accumulated heat volume generated by thegas sensor array I-1.

Referring to FIG. 6 , the gas sensor array module I and the capillarygas chromatographic column module II simultaneously enter theinformation selection and analysis region during the last 10 s of thesingle gas sampling period T₀. The computer control and analysis moduleIV selects 3 pieces of perception information for each gas sensor, i.e.,a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), a peak time t_(gsi)(τ)corresponding to v_(gsi)(τ) and an area under the curve A_(gsi)(τ) fromeach voltage response curve of the gas sensor obtained in an interval of[T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s]; selects 21 pieces of chromatographic perceptioncurve, i.e., the first 10 maximum chromatographic peak valuesv_(gcj)(τ), the retention time t_(gcj)(τ) corresponding to the first 10maximum chromatographic peak values, and the area A_(gc)(τ) under thechromatogram curve in the time stage of [0, T₀−10 s]. The method is abasis for analyzing and predicting either a bio-fermentation process orthe malodorous pollution region by the electronic nose instrument, andis a basis for establishing big odor data X; and the machine learningmodel in the computer control and analysis module IV is configured toidentify odor types and quantitatively predict its intensity and mainconcentration index values according to the perception vector x(τ).

FIG. 7 is a multi-feature selection diagram in a response curve of a gassensor in the single gas sampling period T₀=480 s. An example of thecorresponding curves of 3 gas sensors TGS822, TGS826 and TGS832 for apetroleum wax sample, 2,000 ppm ethylene gas and 5,000 ppm ethanolvapor, respectively, is shown. The steady-state maximum values of thevoltage response curves of the two graphs of FIG. 7 b and FIG. 7 c areequal, i.e., v_(b)=v_(c). If only according to a conventional singlesteady-state maximum voltage value selection method in a response curve,the 2,000 ppm ethylene gas and the 5,000 ppm ethanol vapor cannot bedistinguished by the electronic nose instrument at the moment. By acareful observation, we have found that following three situations areshown in both FIG. 7 b and FIG. 7 c . In the situation 1, although thesteady-state maximum values in the voltage response curves are equal,the peak time points corresponding to the peak values are not equal, andthe areas under the curve are also unequal. The situation 2 is that thepeak time points are equal, but the peak values and the areas under thecurves are unequal. The situation 3 is that the areas under the curvesare equal, but the peak time points and the peak values are unequal.

According to FIG. 7 , the present disclosure proposes that: asteady-state maximum value v_(gsi)(τ) of the voltage response, peak timepoint t_(gsi)(τ) beginning at the headspace sampling of the tested gasand corresponding to the steady-state maximum value v_(gsi)(τ), and anarea A_(gsi)(τ) under the response curve for the headspace sampling ofthe tested gas lasting 60 s are selected from a response curve of onegas sensor i (i=1,2, . . . , 16). If the gas sensor array is composed of16 sensitive elements, then an information selection and processingstage takes 10 s in the single gas sampling period T₀, the computercontrol and analysis module IV sequentially selects 3×16=48 featurevalues from 16 response curves as the primary sensitive information ofthe gas sensor array module I for the tested gas, which is recorded asx_(gs)(τ)={(v_(gs1)(τ), v_(gs2)(τ), . . . , v_(gs16)(τ)); (t_(gs1)(τ),t_(gs2)(τ), . . . , t_(gs16)(τ)); (A_(gc1)(τ), A_(gc2)(τ), . . . ,A_(gc16)(τ))}.

FIG. 8 is an information selection diagram of a semi-separationchromatogram in the single gas sampling period T₀=480 s. In an 5 sinformation selection region within the single gas sampling period T₀,the computer control and analysis module IV sequentially selects 21feature values, including 10 groups of peak heights and retention timepoints {h_(gcj)(τ),t_(gcj)(τ)} (j=1, 2, . . . , 10) and an areaA_(gc)(τ) under a semi-separation spectrogram curve with a specifiedduration 470 s as the primary perception information pieces of thecapillary gas chromatographic column module II to the tested gas, whichis recorded as x_(gc)(τ)={(h_(gc1)(τ), h_(gc2)(τ), . . . , h_(gc10)(τ));(t_(gc1)(τ), t_(gc2)(τ), . . . , t_(gc10)(τ)); A_(gc)(τ)}.

FIG. 9 is a feature selection diagram of two semi-separationchromatograms in the single gas sampling period T₀=480 s. Thesemi-separation chromatogram in FIG. 9 a has only 8 chromatographicpeaks, whereby only 8 peak values h_(gc_i)(τ) (i=1,2, . . . , 8) and 8corresponding retention time points t_(gcj)(τ) (i=1,2, . . . , 8), andan area A_(gc)(τ) under the curve of the semi-separation chromatogramare obtained. Our action is that the insufficient chromatographic peakvalues and corresponding retention time points less than 10 inquantities are zero-filling. Therefore, in FIG. 9 a , the resultingchromatogram perception information is x_(gc)(τ)={(h_(gc1)(τ),h_(gc2)(τ), . . . , h_(gc8)(τ), 0, 0); (t_(gc1)(τ), t_(gc2)(τ), . . . ,t_(gc8)(τ), 0, 0); A_(gc)(τ)}. Because the semi-separation chromatogramin FIG. 9 b has more than 10 chromatographic peaks, the top 10 maximumchromatographic peaks from them accordingly.

In the present disclosure, the semi-separation chromatogram is regardedas a part of the perception information or mode of the electronic noseinstrument, and the big odor data is established by combining theperception information of the gas sensor array, and the unknown odorrecognition, qualitative analysis and main component quantitativeprediction are realized by means of an artificial intelligence machinelearning method. In the information selection and processing region ofthe single gas sampling period T₀ lasting for 10 s, the computer controland analysis module IV fuses the perception information by the gassensor array module I and the capillary gas chromatographic columnmodule II for the tested gas in different time intervals, performs thenormalized preprocessing, and thus obtains a perception informationvector by the electronic nose instrument for one tested gas sample, thatis, x(τ)=x_(gs)(τ)+x_(gc)(τ)={(v_(gsi)(τ), v_(gs2)(τ), . . . ,v_(gs16)(τ)); (t_(gs1)(τ), t_(gs2)(τ), . . . , t_(gs16)(τ));(A_(gc1)(τ), A_(gc2)(τ), . . . , A_(gc16)(τ)); (h_(gc1)(τ), h_(gc2)(τ),. . . , h_(gc10)(τ)); (t_(gc1)(τ), t_(gc2)(τ), . . . , t_(gc10)(τ));A_(gc)}∈R⁶⁹. The perception vector x(τ)∈R⁶⁹ is the basis of theelectronic nose instrument for online odor style identification andquantitative prediction of main component concentrations for a specifiedbio-fermentation process or malodorous pollution point.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of multi-parameter “divide-and-conquer”quantitative prediction of a deep convolutional neural network model ofmachine learning with an “online continuous” analysis mode. The methodincludes the following specified steps: according to a time-seriesmatrix X(τ−q) recently sensed by the gas sensor array module I and thecapillary gas chromatographic column module II, the types offermentation and malodorous pollution, the odor intensity and the maincomponents concentration values are predicted one by one throughmultiple single-output deep convolution neural networks. Here, r is thecurrent time, q is the recently elapsed time, and τ−q is the recentinterval. Thus, the dimensionality of the time-series matrix X(τ−q) isR_(69×(τ−q+1)). The value of q is generally appropriate for about 6hours in a current fermentation or malodorous pollution process.

To determine the structure and parameters of a modular convolutionalneural network model, big odor data needs to be established, whichincludes: online perception data of the gas sensor array module I andthe capillary gas chromatographic column module II for a large number ofbio-fermentation processes and malodorous pollution regions; offlinemonitoring data of conventional instruments such as a gaschromatography, a mass spectrometer and a spectro-photometer; tag dataof known types and constituents of odors; and sensory assessment data.

The next step is the fusion of the perception data of the gas sensorarray I-1 and of the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1,including normalization and dimensionality reduction pretreatment. Toreduce the difficulty of big odor data analysis, a “divide-and-conquer”strategy is adopted to decompose a complex multi-odor qualitative andquantitative analysis problem, namely a complex multi-odor typeidentification problem and a complex multi-odor intensity andcomposition quantitative estimation problem, into multiple one-to-oneidentification and multiple simple-component intensity and one-to-onequantitative prediction of important compositions, namely to decomposean n-curve/n-curved-surface fitting problem from an overalln-curve/n-curved-surface fitting problem, and the one-to-onen-curve/n-curved-surface fitting problem is solved by n single-outputdeep convolutional neural network models, each for one.

According to the present disclosure, multiple modular single-output deepconvolutional neural networks are adopted to realize onlinemulti-parameter quantitative prediction, each for one. A single-outputdeep convolutional neural network includes 1 input layer, 3convolutional layers, 2 down-sampling layers and 1 output unit, whichmainly learns the data with labels and data with known components in thebig odor data. The activation functions of each hidden layer and theoutput layer are the corrected Sigmoid activation functionsƒ(φ)=3(1+exp(−φ/3))⁻¹, and an offline error back-propagationlayer-by-layer learning algorithm is adopted. The scan window size ofconvolutional layer may be 5×5, and the overlap scan step size may be 1.The convolutional kernels are a combination of a sine kernel, a cosinekernel, a polynomial kernel, a Gaussian kernel, a Sigmoid kernel, awavelet kernel, and a Laplace kernel. The scan windows in thedown-sampling layers may have a size of 2×2 without overlap, i.e., astep size of 2, with maximum, mean, and mean squared error featuresextracted from each scan window. In the decision-making stage, nsingle-output deep convolutional neural network models predict multiplequantitative index values of in the τ+1, τ+2, τ+3 and other time pointsaccording to a recent gas sensitive/gas chromatography perceptiontime-series matrix X(τ−q), and the quantitative index values includeodor types, intensity and concentration values of main components.

The specified components of the recent gas sensitive/gas chromatographyperception time-series matrix X(τ−q) are:

$\begin{matrix}{{X\left( {\tau - q} \right)} = \text{ }{\begin{bmatrix}{x_{1}(\tau)} & {x_{1}\left( {\tau - 1} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{1}\left( {\tau - r} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{1}\left( {\tau - q} \right)} \\{x2(\tau)} & {x_{2}\left( {\tau - 1} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{2}\left( {\tau - r} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{2}\left( {\tau - q} \right)} \\\ldots & \ldots & \ldots & \ldots & \ldots & \ldots \\{x_{i}(\tau)} & {x_{i}\left( {\tau - 1} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{i}\left( {\tau - r} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{i}\left( {\tau - q} \right)} \\\ldots & \ldots & \ldots & \ldots & \ldots & \ldots \\{x_{m - 1}(\tau)} & {x_{m - 1}(\tau)} & \ldots & {x_{m - 1}\left( {\tau - r} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{m - 1}\left( {\tau - q} \right)} \\{x_{m}(\tau)} & {x_{m}(\tau)} & \ldots & {x_{m}\left( {\tau - r} \right)} & \ldots & {x_{m}\left( {\tau - q} \right)}\end{bmatrix} \in R^{m \times q}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

In the present disclosure, m=69 and q=9.

When only one point is detected, that is, a cyclical gas sampling periodT is equal to a single gas sampling period T₀=8 min, the setting of“q=9” is equivalent to a time-series perception response matrix by usinga gas sensitivity/gas chromatography according to in the time periodfrom the current moment r to the past 1.2 hours, and is equivalent tothe prediction of possible changes of odor intensity and main componentsin the future 8 min, 16 min and 24 min according to the change offermentation or malodorous pollution processes in the past 1.2 hourperiod. When 5 points are detected, i.e., the cyclical gas samplingperiod is T=5T₀=40 min, and the setting of “q=9” is equivalent to theprediction of possible changes of odor intensity and main components inthe coming 40 min, 80 min and 120 min according to a time-seriesresponse matrix by using a gas sensitivity/gas chromatographicperception in the time interval from the current moment z to the past 6hours.

1. A method for online detecting and analyzing a plurality of stateparameters in fermentation and malodorous pollution processes by usingan electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatography,wherein the electronic nose instrument comprises a gas sensor arraymodule I, a capillary gas chromatographic column module II, a gasauto-sampling module III, a computer control and analysis module IV andan auxiliary gas source V, which is configured to perform cyclicallylong-term online detection and intelligent analysis of a plurality ofbio-fermentation processes or a plurality of malodorous pollutionprocesses, wherein, the gas sensor array module I comprises a gas sensorarray I-1, an annular working chamber I-2 for installing the gas sensorarray I-1, a resistance heating element I-3, a fan I-4, a thermalinsulation layer I-5 and a partition plate I-6 and is located in amiddle right side of the electronic nose instrument; the capillary gaschromatographic column module II comprises a capillary gaschromatographic column II-1, a detector II-2, an amplifier II-3, arecorder II-4, a sampling inlet II-5, a resistive heating wire II-6, afan II-7 and a thermal insulation layer II-8 and is located in an upperright side of the electronic nose instrument; the gas auto-samplingmodule III comprises a first two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-1, a second two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-2, athird two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-3, a fourthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-4, a fifth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-5, 5 first purifiers III-6, a firstminiature vacuum pump III-7, a first flowmeter III-8, a sixthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9, a first throttlevalve III-10, a two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11, athree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, a secondminiature vacuum pump III-13, a seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14, an eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15, a pressure stabilizing valve III-16, afirst pressure reducing valve III-17, a second throttle valve III-18, asecond purifier III-19, a second pressure reducing valve III-20, a thirdpurifier III-21, a third throttle valve III-22, a second flowmeterIII-23, a fourth throttle valve III-24 and a fifth throttle valve III-25and is located in a lower right side of the electronic nose instrument;and the computer control and analysis module IV comprises a computermainboard IV-1, an A/D data acquisition card IV-2, a driving and controlcircuit board IV-3, a 4-path precision direct-current stabilized voltagepower supply IV-4, a display IV-5 and a WIFI module IV-6 and is locatedin a left side of the electronic nose instrument; wherein onebio-fermentation process or one malodorous pollution point is referredto as one monitoring point; a single gas sampling period of theelectronic nose instrument at one monitoring point is T₀=300-600 s, andis T₀=480 s by default; in the single gas sampling period T₀,respectively sucking, by the first miniature vacuum pump III-7 and thesecond miniature vacuum pump III-13, a tested gas at one monitoringpoint into the gas sensor array module I and the capillary gaschromatographic column module II; generating, by the gas sensor arrayI-1 and the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1, a sensitiveresponse; and obtaining, by the electronic nose instrument, a group ofresponse curves of the gas sensor array and a gas chromatogram, which isa gas sensitivity/gas chromatography simulation signal obtained byperceiving a tested gas sample using the electronic nose instrument; inthe single gas sampling period T₀, selecting, by the computer controland analysis module IV, 3 perception information from each voltageresponse curve with a duration of 60 s of the gas sensor array I-1 tosatisfy a triangular stability principle and improve the qualitative andquantitative capacity of the gas sensor array, wherein the 3 perceptioninformation comprises a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), peak timet_(gsi)(τ) corresponding to the v_(gsi)(τ), and an area A_(gsi)(2) underthe voltage response curve; in a case where the gas sensor array I-1comprises 16 gas sensors, i=1,2, . . . , 16, obtaining, by the computercontrol and analysis module IV, 16*3=48 perception component in totalfrom 16 response curves of the gas sensor array in the single gassampling period T₀; in the single gas sampling period T₀, in a casewhere the electronic nose instrument does not pursue a completebetween-peak separation of a gas chromatogram, selecting, by thecomputer control and analysis module IV, 21 perception component from asemi-separation gas chromatogram to improve the online detectioncapability of the gas chromatographic column, wherein the 21 perceptioncomponents comprise first 10 maximum chromatographic peak valuesh_(gcj)(i), 10 retention time t_(gcj)(i) corresponding to the first 10maximum chromatographic peak values, and an area A_(gc)(2) under a wholechromatogram curve; in the single gas sampling period T₀, perceiving, bythe electronic nose instrument, tested gas in one bio-fermentationprocess or at one malodor pollution point; and fusing, by the computercontrol and analysis module IV, 48 perception components extracted fromthe 16 response curves of the gas sensor array I-1 and 21 perceptioncomponents extracted from the semi-separation chromatogram of thecapillary gas chromatographic column II-1 to obtain a perception vectorx(τ)∈R⁶⁹ with m=48+21=69 dimensions, wherein the perception vectorx(τ)∈R⁶⁹ is referred to as a sample; and using as a basis of doing aqualitative and quantitative analysis on a bio-fermentation process or amalodorous pollution process by the electronic nose instrument; setting,by the electronic nose instrument, a cyclical gas sampling period forn(≤5) bio-fermentation processes or n(≤5) malodorous monitoring pointsto be T=nT₀; obtaining, by the electronic nose instrument, n samples insequence, storing them in n data files of a computer hard diskcorresponding to the n samples respectively, and then sending sampledata to a cloud terminal and a specifically fixed/mobile terminalthrough the WIFI routing module; wherein in a case of T₀=480 s, thecyclical tested gas sampling period is T=nT₀=n*480 s, which isequivalent to detect once in every other n*480 s for one fermentationtank or one malodorous pollution point being detected every n*480 s;forming, by the electronic nose instrument, a main body of big odor dataX through a long-term online detection of the plurality ofbio-fermentation processes and a plurality of malodorous pollutionpoints over years; wherein the data set X further comprises offlinedetection data of a gas chromatography instrument, a mass spectrometryinstrument and a spectrophotometric instrument, odor unit (OU)concentration data obtained through laboratory sensory smelling, andbio-fermentation type data of penicillin, erythromycin, vinegar, soysauce, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate recorded by on-siteoperators, and malodorous pollution monitoring region type data of achemical industrial park, a refuse landfill, a sewage treatment plantand a livestock and poultry farm; establishing, by a part of subsets ofthe data set X, a corresponding relationship between a response vectorof gas sensor array and gas chromatography and a plurality ofbio-fermentation processes/malodorous pollution types comprising manycomponent concentrations; and in the learning stage, making eachperception component of the big odor data X to be normalize, offlinelearning, by a machine learning model of the computer control andanalysis module IV, the big odor data X to determine the structure andparameters of the machine learning model; in the decision-making stage,online learning, by the machine learning model, a group of recentresponse patterns of gas sensor array and gas chromatography to finelytune the parameters of the machine learning model, online determiningthe types of the plurality of bio-fermentation processes and malodorouspollutions, and quantitatively predicting the concentrations of mainchemical compositions of fermentation liquids during thebio-fermentation processes or 8+1 concentration index values ofmalodorous pollutants, comprising 8 specified chemical components,ammonia (NH₃), hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), carbon disulfide (CS₂),trimethylamine (C₃H₉N), methyl mercaptan (CH₄S), methyl sulfide (C₂H₆S),dimethyl disulfide (C₂H₆S₂) and styrene (C₈H₈) specified by the Chinesenational standard GB14554, as well as an OU concentration value, bydepending upon a group of time-serial response patterns of gas sensorarray and gas chromatography.
 2. The method for online detecting andanalyzing a plurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorouspollution processes by using an electronic nose instrument of gassensitivity and gas chromatography of claim 1, wherein the gas sensorarray I-1 and the annular working chamber I-2 are located in athermostatic box with a temperature of 55±0.1° C.; in the single gassampling period T₀, making the gas sensor array module I be sequentiallysubject to 6 stages, i.e., an rough recovery stage of the gas sensorarray I-1 for T₀−120 s, an accurate calibration stage by dry air for 40s, a balance stage for 5 s, a headspace sampling stage of tested gas for60 s, a transition stage for 5 s and a flushing stage by clean ambientair for 10 s; wherein gas types and flow rates for these 6 stages are inorder: (i) clean ambient air of 6,500 ml/min; (ii) dry air of 1,000ml/min; (iii) no gas flow; (iv) tested gas of 1,000 ml/min; (v) cleanambient air of 1,000 ml/min; (vi) clean ambient air of 6,500 ml/min;where “transition” mainly refers to a change from the tested gas to theclean ambient air.
 3. The method for online detecting and analyzing aplurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorous pollutionprocesses by using an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity andgas chromatography of claim 1, wherein an interval of [T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s]in the single gas sampling period T₀ is the headspace sampling stage ofthe gas sensor array module I for the tested gas, setting onetwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5)among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 to be on,setting the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 to be“0”, setting the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9to be off, setting the seventh two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-14 to be off, and setting the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 to be on; and under the suction action ofthe first miniature vacuum pump III-7, making a tested gas at onemonitoring point sequentially flow through, at a flow rate of 1,000ml/min, the k^(th) two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5), the eighth two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-15, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular workingchamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1, the first throttle valve III-10and the first flowmeter III-8, and finally, discharging the tested gasoutdoors and lasting for 60 s, and therefore, generating, by the gassensor array I-1, a sensitive response to the tested gas, and storingthe sensitive response in a temporary file of the computer control andanalysis module IV.
 4. The method for online detecting and analyzing aplurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorous pollutionprocesses by using an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity andgas chromatography of claim 1, wherein an interval of [T₀−120 s, T₀−80s] of the single gas sampling period T₀ is the accurate calibrationstage of the gas sensor array module I by the dry air, setting thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 to be “1”, settingthe sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9, the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14, and the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 to be off, and makingdry air in the dry air bottle V-2 sequentially flow through, at a flowrate of 1,000 ml/min, the first pressure reducing valve III-17, thesecond throttle valve III-18, the second purifier III-19, thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, the pressurestabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2, the gassensor array I-1, the first throttle valve III-10 and the firstflowmeter III-8, and finally, discharging the dry air outdoors lastingfor 40 s, and during this period, making the gas sensor array I-1accurately restore to a reference state under the action of the dry air;wherein as the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15is set to be off, whether the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 are off or on does not affect a calibrationof the gas sensor array I-1.
 5. The method for online detecting andanalyzing a plurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorouspollution processes by using an electronic nose instrument of gassensitivity and gas chromatography of claim 1, wherein the “cleanambient air” is the kind of the outdoor air in where the electronic noseinstrument is located by the dust removal, dehumidification and asepticpretreatments; the clean ambient air is only used for the rough recoveryof the gas sensor array I-1, flushing inner walls of the annular workingchamber I-2 as well as related pipelines, and taking away theaccumulated heat volume generated by the gas sensor array I-1; in twointervals of [0, T₀−120 s] and [T₀−10 s, T₀] in the single gas samplingperiod T₀, setting the three-position four-port electromagnetic valveIII-12 to be “2”, setting the sixth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-9 to be on, and setting the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 to be off, and makingthe clean ambient air sequentially flow through, at a flow rate of 6,500ml/min, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, thepressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2, thegas sensor array I-1, the sixth two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-9 and the first flowmeter III-8, and finally, discharging theclean ambient air outdoors and lasting for T₀−110 s, and during thisperiod, making the gas sensor array I-1 elementarily recover to areference state under the role of the clean ambient air; wherein as theeighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 is set to beoff, whether the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 are offor on does not affect an rough recovery of the gas sensor array I-1. 6.The method for online detecting and analyzing a plurality of stateparameters in fermentation and malodorous pollution processes by usingan electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyof claim 1, wherein a size of a commercially available capillary gaschromatographic column II-1 is set to be a length ‘L’ times an innerdiameter ‘ϕd’ times a film thickness ‘δ’, namely L×ϕd×=30 m×ϕ0.53mm×0.25 μm, by default, and is located in a thermostatic box with atemperature of 250-300±0.1° C.; in the single gas sampling period T₀,making the capillary gas chromatographic column module II sequentiallyundergo three stages, i.e., a headspace sampling stage of the tested gasfor is, a chromatographic separation stage of the tested gas for T₀−16s, and an emptying and purging stage for 15 s; wherein H₂ issimultaneously used as a carrier gas and a fuel gas, and a dry air isused as a combustion-supporting gas; and an initial is of the single gassampling period T₀ is the headspace sampling stage of the tested gas bythe capillary gas chromatographic column module II, setting onetwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5)among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 to be on,setting the two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 to be“1”, setting the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-14 to be on, and setting the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 to be off, and at this time, under thesuction action of the second miniature vacuum pump III-13, making thetested gas at a monitoring point k sequentially flow through thetwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5)among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5, the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14, the two-positionthree-port electromagnetic valve III-11 and the fourth throttle valveIII-24, and mixing with the carrier gas H₂ at the sampling inlet II-5 toflow into the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1 and last for is,wherein a sampling flow rate of the tested gas is 6 ml/min by default, asampling duration is 1 s by default, and an cumulative sampling amountis 0.1 ml by default.
 7. The method for online detecting and analyzing aplurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorous pollutionprocesses by using an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity andgas chromatography of claim 1, wherein an interval of [is, T₀−10 s] inthe single gas sampling period T₀ is the chromatographic separationstage of the capillary gas chromatographic column module II for thetested gas, and setting the two-position three-port electromagneticvalve III-11 to be “2”, and setting the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 to be off, so that tested gas from themonitoring point k cannot enter the gas chromatographic column module IIfor T₀−11 s; and under the pushing action of the carrier gas H₂ with acertain pressure and a certain flow rate, separating, in the capillarygas chromatographic column II-1, the tested gas is injected into thesampling inlet II-5 of the gas chromatographic column module II,generating a perception response through the detector II-2, amplifyingthe perception response through the amplifier II-3, recording, by therecorder II-4, the perception response within an interval of [0, T₀−10s], i.e., a duration of T₀−10 s of the chromatographic column II-1, andsaving the perception response within the interval of [0, T₀−10 s] in atemporary file of the computer control and analysis module IV.
 8. Themethod for online detecting and analyzing a plurality of stateparameters in fermentation and malodorous pollution processes by usingan electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyof claim 1, wherein an interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀] with a duration of 10 sin the single gas sampling period T₀ is an emptying and purging stage ofthe capillary gas chromatographic column II-1, setting the onetwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k in an originally onstate among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 to beoff, and setting one of four two-position two-port electromagneticvalves in an originally off state among the first two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-5 to be on; setting the two-positionthree-port electromagnetic valve III-11 to be “2”, setting the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 to be on, setting theeighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 to be off,assuming that the two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-(˜k)is on (k=1,2, . . . , 5), under the suction action of the second microvacuum pump III-13, making a tested gas sequentially flow through, at aflow rate of 330 ml/min, the two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-(˜k), the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14and the two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11, andfinally, discharging the tested gas outdoors, so that gas residue from amonitoring point k in a current gas sampling period of a relatedpipeline is removed, and the pipeline is gradually filled with thetested gas from the monitoring point ˜k to prepare a detection of nextbio-fermentation process or malodorous pollution monitoring point in anext gas sampling period, and a detection duration is 10 s; and aninterval of [T₀−10 s, T₀] of the single gas sampling period T₀ is stillan information selection and analysis stage, selecting, by the computercontrol and analysis module IV, 48 pieces of perception informationincluding a group of steady-state peak values v_(gsi)(τ), i=1,2, . . . ,16, from a group of voltage response curves of the gas sensor array I-1obtained in an interval of [T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s]; selecting 21 perceptioncomponents including the first 10 maximum chromatographic peak valuesv_(gcj)(2), j=1,2, . . . 10, from a chromatogram obtained in an intervalof [0, T₀−10 s], and being used as a basis of further doing an analysison a bio-fermentation process or a malodorous pollution region by theelectronic nose instrument; and performing, by the computer control andanalysis module IV, a type identification of an odor and a quantitativeprediction its overall intensity as well as the main concentration indexvalues according to the current pattern vector x(τ) and the big odordata X.
 9. The method for online detecting and analyzing a plurality ofstate parameters in fermentation and malodorous pollution processes byusing an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gaschromatography of claim 1, wherein, in the single gas sampling periodT₀, in a case where one bio-fermentation process or one malodorouspollution point is detected only, making the cyclical sampling period beT=T₀; in a case where k bio-fermentation processes or malodorouspollution points are simultaneously detected in sequence in thespecified time stage, making the cyclical sampling period for one of aplurality of tested gas samples from the k bio-fermentation processesand/or malodorous pollution points be T=k*T₀; in a case where the one ofthe k bio-fermentation processes and/or malodorous pollution pointsexits from the current long-term circulation monitoring process, makingthe cyclical sampling period change of tested gas samples to be changedinto T=(k−1)*T₀ from the original T=k*T₀; similarly, in the long-termcirculation monitoring process, in a case where a new bio-fermentationprocesses or malodorous pollution point is added to the presentlong-term circulation detection process in the midway, making thecyclical sampling period of tested gas samples change into T=(k+1)*T₀,wherein a corresponding data recording period is changed from the momentwhile one bio-fermentation process or one malodorous pollution pointexits or joins.
 10. The method for online detecting and analyzing aplurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorous pollutionprocesses by using an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity andgas chromatography of claim 1, wherein in the single gas sampling periodT₀, an interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀] is an information selection andanalysis stage with a duration of 10 s, performing, by the computercontrol and analysis module IV, information selection and analysisoperations simultaneously on the gas sensor array module I and thecapillary gas chromatographic column module II; selecting, by thecomputer control and analysis module IV, 3 components of perceptioninformation, i.e., a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), a correspondingpeak time t_(gsi)(τ) and an area under the curve A_(gsi)(τ), from thei^(th) voltage response curve of the gas sensor array I-1 obtained in aninterval of [T₀−75 s, T₀−15 s] with a duration of 60 s; selecting, bythe computer control and analysis module IV, 21 perception responsecomponents, i.e., the first 10 maximum chromatographic peak valuesv_(gcj)(2), the 10 retention time t_(gcj)(τ) corresponding to the first10 maximum chromatographic peak values, and the 1 area A_(gc)(τ) underthe semi-separation chromatogram curve from the capillary gaschromatographic column II-1 in an interval of [0, T₀−10 s], i.e., aduration of 6 s; and saving the 21 perception response components in atemporary file of the computer hard disk; and in the single gas samplingperiod T₀, in a case where the number of chromatographic peaks of thesemi-separation chromatogram with a duration of T₀−10 s is less than 10,or q<10, selecting, by the computer control and analysis module IV, thefirst q<10 maximum chromatographic peak values h_(gcj) (τ), thecorresponding q<10 retention time values t_(gcj) (τ), and 1 area underthe chromatogram curve A_(gc)(τ), all from the semi-separationchromatogram, and then performing a zero-filling operation to theinsufficient peak values and the corresponding retention time values;wherein the obtained chromatogram perception information isx_(gc)(τ)={(h_(gc1)(τ), h_(gc2)(τ), . . . , h_(gcq)(τ), 0, . . . , 0);(t_(gc1)(τ), t_(gc2)(τ), . . . , t_(gcq)(τ), 0, . . . , 0); A_(gc)(τ)}.11. The method for online detecting and analyzing a plurality of stateparameters in fermentation and malodorous pollution processes by usingan electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatographyof claim 1, wherein a last 10 s of the single gas sampling period T₀ isan information processing and analysis interval of [T₀−10 s, T₀],performing, by a modular machine learning model of the computer controland analysis module IV, a type identification of an odor and aquantitative prediction of its overall intensity as well as manyconcentration index values of main components on a bio-fermentationprocess and/or malodorous pollution point based on a recent time-seriesresponse matrix X(τ−q) given by a gas sensitivity and a gaschromatography, the method comprises: identifying a type ofbio-fermentation process and a malodorous pollution point; performing aquantitative concentration estimation on cells, substrates and evenbio-products in the plurality of bio=fermentation processes; forinstance, performing a quantitative concentration estimation on suchprecursor substances as n-propanol and phenylacetic acid in differentfermentation processes; and performing a quantitative concentrationprediction on (8+1) kinds of malodorous pollutants specified by GB14554,wherein τ is a current time point, q is a recently elapsed time point,and τ−q is a recent interval.
 12. The method for online detecting andanalyzing a plurality of state parameters in fermentation and malodorouspollution processes by using an electronic nose instrument of gassensitivity and gas chromatography of claim 1, wherein the big odor dataX further comprises: the gas sensitive/gas chromatographic datasensitized by an electronic nose instrument for a plurality of headspacevapors of simple compounds with a concentration of 0.1 ppm to 10000 ppm;offline detection data of a gas chromatographic, a mass spectrometricand a spectrophotometric instrument; professional laboratory olfactorydata; and especially a plurality of simple compounds not only includesuch precursor substances as n-propanol, phenylacetic acid in thebio-fermentation processes; but also includes 8 malodorous compoundsspecified by GB14554; and the standard reference substance of odorconcentration (OU) value, butanol, specified by the European standardEN13725.
 13. The method for online detecting and analyzing a pluralityof state parameters in fermentation and malodorous pollution processesby using an electronic nose instrument of gas sensitivity and gaschromatography of claim 1, wherein the machine learning model comprisesa plurality of modular deep convolutional neural networks; the number ofthe modular single-output deep convolutional neural networks are equalto either the main predicted component number of fermentation liquors inthe plurality of bio-fermentation processes plus the objective odor-typenumber detected, or the main concentration index number of malodorouspollutants plus the objective odor-type number, each for one; onesingle-output deep convolutional neural network in the plurality ofmodular single-output deep convolutional neural networks comprises 1input layer, 3 convolutional layers, 2 down-sampling layers and 1 outputunit, and activation functions in each convolutional layer, eachdown-sampling layer and the output layer are all a Sigmoid correctionactivation function ƒ(φ)=3(1+exp(−φ/3))−1; in the learning stage,adopting, by the each single-output deep convolutional neural network,an offline layer-wise error back-propagation algorithm to mainly learnthe big odor data X with labels and/or known components; setting a scanwindow in each convolutional layer to be 55, and setting an overlappingscan step length to be 1; making 6 single-type kernels, a sine, acosine, a polynomial, a Gaussian, a Sigmoid, a wavelet and a Laplacekernel to form a group of combined convolution kernels; setting a scanwindow in each down-sampling layer to be 2×2, setting a non-overlappingscan step length to be 2, and extracting such 3 features as a maximum, amean and a mean-square-error value; and in the decision-making stage,performing, by n single-output deep convolutional neural network models,an odor type identification, and an intensity estimation and predictionof their intensities and main component concentrations one by one at acurrent time point r and coming τ+1, τ+2 and τ+3, according to a currentgas sensitive/gas chromatographic response vector x(τ) and a recentlyoccurred time-series response matrix X(τ−q).
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The method for onlinedetecting and analyzing a plurality of state parameters in fermentationand malodorous pollution processes by using an electronic noseinstrument of gas sensitivity and gas chromatography of claim 1, whereinperforming, by the electronic nose instrument, a long-term onlinecirculation detection and an online analysis prediction of a pluralityof bio-fermentation processes/malodorous pollution points comprises: (1)power-on operation: performing a preheating operation in the electronicnose instrument for 30 min; setting the single gas sampling period T₀ ina screen menu as a default value T₀=8 min, and setting a cyclical gassampling period for 5 monitoring points to be T=5T₀; setting thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 to be “2”, settingthe sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 to be on andthe eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 to be off,under the suction action of the first miniature vacuum pump III-7,making clean ambient air to sequentially flow through, at a flow rate of6,500 ml/min, the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12,the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2,the gas sensor array I-1, the sixth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-9 and the first flowmeter III-8, and finally,discharging the clean ambient air to outdoor, and therefore, making theannular working chamber I-2 reach a constant internal temperature of55±0.1° C.; and setting the two-position three-port electromagneticvalve III-11 to be “2”, and setting the seventh two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-14 to be off, under the pushing role of thecarrier gas H₂, making the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1gradually recover to a reference state, and making the chromatographiccolumn box reach a constant internal temperature of 250+0.1° C.; (2)beginning a cyclical gas sampling period: clicking an option with“monitoring point k on” in a screen menu of the display IV-5, whereink=1, 2, . . . , 5, performing, by the electronic nose instrument, acontinuous and cyclical detection until the operator clicks an optionwith “monitoring point k off”; in a process that the electronic noseinstrument performs a cyclical detection on the 5 monitoring points inorder, automatically generating, by the computer control and analysismodule IV, 5 text files respectively to save the sensitive response dataof the gas sensor array I-1 and the capillary gas chromatographic columnmodule II to the tested gases at the 5 monitoring points; (3) beginningthe single gas sampling period at a monitoring point k among the 5monitoring points: taking a default period value T₀=8 min as an example:(3.1) for the gas sensor array module I: undergoing the following sixgas sampling stages in order, i.e., (i) an rough recovery stage for 360s, (ii) an accurate calibration stage for 40 s, (iii) a balance stagefor 5 s, (iv) a headspace sampling stage for 60 s, (v) a transitionstage for 5 s, and (vi) a cleaning and rough recovery stage for 10 s,(3.1a) the rough recovery stage from 0 s to the 360th sec of the singlegas sampling period T₀, setting the three-position four-portelectromagnetic valve III-12 to be “2”, setting the sixth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-9 to be on, and setting the eighthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 to be off, and underthe suction action of the first miniature vacuum pump III-7, making theclean ambient air flow through, at a flow rate of 6,500 ml/min, thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, the pressurestabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2, the gassensor array I-1, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-9 and the first flowmeter III-8 in order, and finally, dischargingthe clean ambient air to outdoor; and therefore, making the gas sensorarray I-1 initially recover to a reference state; (3.1b) for theaccurate calibration stage from the 360^(th) sec to the 400^(th) sec ofthe single gas sampling period T₀, setting the three-position four-portelectromagnetic valve III-12 to be “1”, setting the sixth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-9 to be off, setting the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 to be off, andsetting the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-15 tobe off, and under the suction action of the first miniature vacuum pumpIII-7, making dry air flow through, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, thefirst pressure reducing valve III-17, the second throttle valve III-18,the second purifier III-19, the three-position four-port electromagneticvalve III-12, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular workingchamber I-2, the gas sensor array I-1 in the annular working chamberI-2, the first throttle valve III-10 and the first flowmeter III-8 inorder, and finally, discharging the dry air to outdoor and lasting for40 s, and therefore, making the gas sensor array I-1 accurately recoverto a reference state; (3.1c) for the balance stage from the 400^(th) secto the 405^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀, setting thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 to be “0”, settingthe sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9 to be off,and setting the eighth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-15 to be off, so that no gas flows in the annular working chamberI-2 for 5 s; (3.1d) for the headspace sampling stage from the 405^(th)sec to the 465^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀, settingthe two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5)among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 to be on,setting the three-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12 to be“0”, setting the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-9to be off, setting the seventh two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-14 to be off, and setting the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 to be on, wherein k=1, 2, . . . , 5; andunder the suction action of the first miniature vacuum pump III-7,making the tested gas at a monitoring point flow through, at a flow rateof 1,000 ml/min, the two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5), the eighth two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-15, the pressure stabilizing valve III-16, the annular workingchamber I-2 and the gas sensor array I-1, the first throttle valveIII-10 and the first flowmeter III-8 in order, and finally, dischargingthe tested gas to outdoor and lasting for 60 s, and therefore,generating, by the gas sensor array I-1, a sensitive response, andsaving the sensitive response in a temporary file corresponding to thecomputer control and analysis module IV; (3.1e) for the transition stagefrom the 465^(th) sec to the 470^(th) sec of the single gas samplingperiod T₀, setting the three-position four-port electromagnetic valveIII-12 to be “2”, setting the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 to be off, setting the sixth two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-9 to be off, and setting the seventhtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14 to be off, and underthe suction action of the first miniature vacuum pump III-7, making theclean ambient air flow through, at a flow rate of 1,000 ml/min, thethree-position four-port electromagnetic valve III-12, the pressurestabilizing valve III-16, the annular working chamber I-2 and the gassensor array I-1, the sixth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-9 and the first flowmeter III-8 in order, and finally, dischargingthe clean ambient air to outdoor; (3.1f) for the cleaning and roughrecovery stage from the 470^(th) sec to the 480^(th) sec of the singlegas sampling period T₀, compared with the “transition stage”, making thepositions of the rest valves be the same except that the sixthtwo-position two-way electromagnetic valve III-9 is changed from “off”to “on”; making the flow rate of the clean ambient air thus change from“1,000 ml/min” to “6,500 ml/min”; and making a valve position and aworking state of the stage be completely the same and match with a valveposition and a working state of a “rough recovery” stage of a next gassampling period; (3.2) for a capillary gas chromatographic column IImodule, sequentially undergoing (i) a headspace sampling stage for is,(ii) a chromatographic separation stage for 469 s and (iii) an emptyingand cleaning stage for 10 s; (3.2a) for the headspace sampling stagefrom 0 s to the 1^(st) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀, settingone two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5)among the first two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to thefifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 to be on,setting the two-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 to be“1”, setting the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-14 to be on, and setting the eighth two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-15 to be off, and under the suction action ofthe second miniature vacuum pump III-13, making the tested gas at amonitoring point k flow through the k^(th) two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve III-k (k=1,2, . . . , 5), the seventh two-positiontwo-port electromagnetic valve III-14, the two-position three-portelectromagnetic valve III-11 and the fourth throttle valve III-24 inorder, and mixing with the carrier gas H₂ at the sampling inlet II-5 toflow into the capillary gas chromatographic column II-1 for 1 s; (3.2 b)for the chromatographic separation stage from the 1^(st) sec to the470^(th) sec of the single gas sampling period T₀, setting thetwo-position three-port electromagnetic valve III-11 to be “2”, andsetting the seventh two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-14to be off, and under the pushing role of carrier gas H₂ with a certainpressure and flow, separating the tested gas in the capillary gaschromatographic column II-1, generating a perception response throughthe detector II-2, amplifying the perception response through theamplifier II-3, recording, by the recorder II-4, the perception responseat a duration of 470 s within an interval of [0, 470 s] to form asemi-separation chromatographic peak graph; and saving thesemi-separation chromatographic peak graph in a temporary filecorresponding to the computer control and analysis module IV; (3.3)information selection and analysis operation, in a time interval fromthe 470^(th) sec to the 480^(th) sec of the single gas sampling periodT₀, selecting, by the computer control and analysis module IV, 3 piecesof sensitive information, i.e., a steady-state peak value v_(gsi)(τ), acorresponding peak time t_(gsi)(τ), and an area under the whole curveA_(gsi)(τ) from a single voltage response curve which is obtained byeach gas sensor in an interval of [405 s, 465 s] and lasts for 60 s, toobtain 16*3=48 pieces of sensitive information by the gas sensor arrayI-1 comprising 16 gas sensors; simultaneously selecting, by the computercontrol and analysis module IV, first 10 maximum chromatographic peakvalues v_(gcj)(τ), 10 corresponding retention time values t_(gcj)(τ),and an area under a total chromatogram curve A_(gc)(τ) from thesemi-separation chromatogram with a duration of 470 s by the capillarygas chromatographic column module II, to obtain 21 pieces of perceptioninformation; obtaining, by the computer control and analysis module IV,1 response vector x(τ)εR⁶⁹ with 69 dimensions from the sensitiveinformation of the gas sensor array module I and the capillarychromatography column module II in the signal gas sampling period T₀;and performing, by a machine learning model, an odor type identificationand an intensity and main component quantitative prediction based on thesensitive vector x(τ) and the big odor data X, displaying, by thedisplay, a monitoring and prediction result, and transmitting, throughan Internet network, the monitoring and prediction result to a centralcontrol room and a plurality of fixed/mobile terminals; (3.4) ending thecurrent monitoring point k and beginning a next monitoring point;setting the k^(th) two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-k(k=1,2, . . . , 5) among the first two-position two-port electromagneticvalve III-1 to the fifth two-position two-port electromagnetic valveIII-5 to be from ‘on’ to ‘off’, and setting the two-position two-portelectromagnetic valve corresponding to a next monitoring point among thefirst two-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-1 to the fifthtwo-position two-port electromagnetic valve III-5 to be on; (4)repeating the steps (3.1)˜(3.4), and realizing, by the electronic noseinstrument, online cyclical detection, identification and quantitativeprediction of odor intensity and a plurality of concentration indexvalues of the tested gases at the 1˜5 monitoring points.